Zdravotné poistenie v Slovenskej republike

Abstract

This bachelor’s thesis outlines and asseses the health insurance system in Slovakia and the way it works. The main objective is to explain the features of the health insurance system. The core feature is that it provides health care to those paying for insurance. The first chapter focuses on the characteristics of the main elements of the health insurance. In this chapter I analyse the users of health insurance, the individual types of health isurance, how to join and leave the public health insurance scheme, as well as the rights and obligations of the insurance payers. The second chapter analyses three specific health insurance companies in Slovakia, which are Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa, Union, and Dôvera. The third chapter concentrates on the specific groups of insurance payers which are employers, employees, sole traders and the group whose health insurance is paid by the state. This chapter also explains the calculations of the insurance basis and setting the insurance payments amounts.