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For the year 2025, which has just begun, there are several challenges for the health system in the Dominican Republic, in order to achieve effective health coverage of the population affiliated to the Family Health Insurance. Among others, it will be necessary to review and seek guarantees in terms of co-payments at the time of accessing services. <\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 1 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]The opinion of the economist and planning expert, Jefrey Lizardo, former vice-minister of planning of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic, is that the effective coverage of the population affiliated to the health system must be reviewed and guarantees must be sought.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Speaking at the beginning of this new year 2025 with the newspaper Noticias22, he notes that despite the almost universal coverage of the Family Health Insurance, it is necessary to improve the effective coverage of members with effective access to medical care. To achieve this objective, it will be necessary, among other things, to reduce the amount of co-payments made by the user at the time of accessing health services. He also believes that the first level of care should be strengthened with an estimated investment of between 5 and 20 billion pesos, and the distribution of human resources in health should be improved. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the year 2025, which has just begun, there are several challenges for the health system in the Dominican Republic, in order to achieve effective health coverage of the population affiliated to the Family Health Insurance. Among others, it will be necessary to review and seek guarantees in terms of co-payments at the time of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":987751524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3043,134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987751530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987751530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987751530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987751546,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987751530\/revisions\/987751546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987751524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987751530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987751530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987751530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}