Ružička Csekes on the issue of HEALTH INSURANCE PROFIT BAN
Date: 30/06/2011
HEALTH_INSURANCE_PROFIT_BAN.pdfHistory, factual and legal basis of case
At the end of 2007, National Council of the Slovak Republic passed an amendment to the health insurance companies act, banning the health insurers (and thus their shareholders) from freely deciding on the use of their profi ts derived from public health insurance. This happened by passing one particular provision of the health insurance companies act (Section 15(6)), which obliged the health insurance companies to use the profi t (earnings) generated in the previous calendar strictly to pay for health care provision. In other words, the health insurance companies are not allowed to decide freely on using their profi t but are instead obliged to direct it back to the healthcare system.
