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  • Title: [Health insurance in Tunisia, current context and future perspectives].
    Author: Blel S.
    Journal: Tunis Med; 2001 May; 79(5):278-84. PubMed ID: 11515469.
    Abstract:
    The Tunisian health system, notably in its health insurance component, has allowed to record a satisfactory evolution of health indicators. Nevertheless, socio-economic, demographic and epidemiological transitions impose a global reform of the system, notably of its financing. The present article, leaving from the presentation of the current system of coverage of the social security insured, analyses observed insufficiencies that have brought public authorities to commit the health insurance reform. The main observed insufficiencies refer to the multiplicity of regimes and their heterogeneity, generating iniquities between insured and a strong growth of care expenses financed directly by households. In addition, relationships of social security bodies with public and private providers of health care are little transparent, marked by a preferential processing of public structures, despite an important development of the private sector. In a second part, the author analyzes successively objectives of the health insurance reform of the social security regimes, its founder principles, characteristics of the proposed regime (a mandatory basic regime and an optional complementary regime) and sketches of providers payment methods.
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