Insurers unhappy with draft law

The private health insurance market is being threatened by the provisions of the draft law on voluntary health insurance, according to insurance companies. This market amounted to some 7.4 million euros last year. The draft law stipulates that every company that sells health insurance policies will have to check whether those that buy them have paid their healthcare related dues to the state. “If we have to do this, it means there will no longer be any private health insurance system in Romania. We are not control authorities and we do not have the necessary leverage to check our clients,” stated Livia Dragomir, head of the individual accident insurance department of Allianz-Tiriac. Generali Asigurari”s general manager, Tudor Moldovan, says he will no longer sell health insurance policies, should he have to ask customers for proof that they have paid their public health insurance dues. “I”d have to hire an army of people to check whether the public system works and turn into a major bureaucrat,” he explained. ZF