House of Representatives Adopts Government Bill 27.22 on Basic Health Insurance

The House of Representatives adopted, on Monday, November 8, 2022, Government Bill 27.22 amending and supplementing Law 65.00, operating as the Code of Basic Health Insurance. The adoption took place during a legislative plenary sitting chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Rep. Mohammed Ouzzine, and attended by the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Mr. Khalid Ait Taleb, and the Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in Charge of Relations with the Parliament and Government Spokesperson, Mr. Mustapha Baïtas.

The adopted Bill comes as part of the grand social protection project and is essential and urgent, as it is tightly linked to several provisions of Framework Law 09.21 on universal social protection for all Moroccans, and as a social revolution towards ameliorating the living conditions of citizens.

Government Bill 27.22, which follows the high Royal directives, is based on several principles, namely the implementation of the social protection project, the reform of the healthcare system in terms of generalizing the basic compulsory health insurance, the automatic transfer of the beneficiaries from the RAMED medical assistance system to the basic compulsory health insurance system, the cancellation of the RAMED medical assistance system and its substitution with the basic compulsory health insurance system, and the preservation of the advantages granted to the beneficiaries of the RAMED medical assistance system.

The said Bill stipulates the benefit of the same package of treatments, the adoption of the Unified Social Register as a requirement for benefitting from this system, and the assignment of the system management to the National Social Security Fund (CNSS).

Regarding the financial cost of implementing this project, the State will bear responsibility for this aspect, both regarding the public and private sectors, taking into consideration the necessity of regulating the latter with regard to a reference tariff so that the State may cover the financial cost and protect citizens from some unlawful practices that affect the payment of treatment costs.