Dissatisfied with health care, patients go to Iran

In Azerbaijan, about 99% of the market for voluntary health insurance accounts for corporate clients. In the past year, the market share of VHI was 16.13%.

Compulsory health insurance is not involved in favor of officials. According to the State Statistics Committee, last year 2.5 million Azerbaijanis left for Iran to have their illnesses cured. The reason is that the general level of health care is low in Azerbaijan.

According to the head of the Association of Private Health Insurance in Germany, Mark Pierre Moll, it is another occasion to refer to the positive experience of compulsory health insurance. As he told the participants of the V International Forum AIIF 2014, the main advantages of the "dual" system used in Germany are based on a partnership between the private and public health sector. "In 2014, those who get more than 53 thousand 550 euros a year can decide for themselves whether they want health insurance - private or public. Those who get less are obliged to give to the health insurance companies 8.9% of their annual income. Another 7% of the employee's salary is paid by the employer. Currently in Germany, there are about 150 state-owned insurance companies providing health insurance," he said.

Azerbaijan's population is about 9.5 million people. Nominally the local health care is free, but the market for the said services together with budgetary funds is about 3 billion manat. - 17D-