Rabat- A scathing report issued by the Court of Auditors criticized the government’s sluggish pace in adopting crucial universal health and social insurance reforms provisions. These provisions have languished in the bureaucratic pipeline, stressed the report.
While presenting the report in the Moroccan parliament, the Court of Auditors’s president took the government to task, shedding light on the delayed amendment of laws tied to the social security system. The government was also criticized for its slow pace in revising the governance of the National Social Security Fund. The Council underscored that it’s pivotal to overhaul these sectors to better manage various compulsory basic health insurance systems.
The report was emphatic in its call for swift action, urging that amendments to laws and regulatory provisions be fast-tracked. By doing so, the necessary legal groundwork can be laid for the implementation of universal basic compulsory health insurance.
It is worth mentioning that the government’s annual budgetary allocation for universal basic compulsory health insurance stands at an estimated 13.8 billion Dirhams, which benefits mostly individuals who are economically disadvantaged and can’t afford subscription duties.
