Social health insurance Implementing social security health care
The experience of the National Social Insurance Fund for Salaried Workers
Patricia Bougrine
Benefits Director
National Social Insurance Fund for Salaried Workers
Algeria
The Algerian social security system is based on a single scheme covering virtually the entire population against risks in the following five branches:
• social insurance;
• retirement;
• work injuries and occupational diseases;
• family benefits;
• unemployment.
Health insurance is one part of social insurance, which also covers maternity, invalidity and death, and it is by far the largest.
Health insurance was introduced in 1959 and was reformed in 1983 along with the rest of the social security system.
A broad outline will be provided of this health insurance, which is based on the principle of solidarity among the beneficiaries.
Beneficiaries
Those benefiting from and covered by health insurance are:
• employees, regardless of the sector in which they work;
• self-employed persons;
• former workers in receipt of social security benefits (disability or retirement pensions, annuities as a result of a work injury or occupational disease, unemployment benefit);
• certain categories of persons whose status entitles them to be social security beneficiaries (students, apprentices, handicapped people, veterans, d
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