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3- Health Care, Insurance Rights and Right to Work
The principle of social justice in all areas has been and still is
the goal of all peoples. To achieve this end is the way to a
civilized developed community that is up to meeting its
aspirations and honoring its obligations. At the Jamhirya level, a
set of measures have been taken and means employed to
improve health conditions of all citizens without exception, and
several laws and regulations were issued to this effect. Each
time basic people's congresses happen to spare flaws of previous
laws and work on updating favorable ones as is the case
regarding Health Law no (106) in 1973 and Social Security Law
no (13) for 1980.
Early this year, Law no (20) for 2010 on health insurance was
issued, guaranteeing for every worker living in the Jamhirya the
right to treatment of different types gratuitously through
payment of subscriptions by public and private employers in
favor of their staff in medical insurance institutions and
contribution to the subscriber quota. This is mandatory for
employers.
The legislator did not disregard unemployed citizens or very
limited-income earners. Article (3) of the above mentioned Law
stipulates that: "The State shall undertake to pay full medical
insurance premiums for the following categories:
1) Widows, orphans and those in need with no guardian;
2) Those who have no income;
3) Limited – income categories;
The legislator has not left in the purview of executive bodies the
delineation of medical insurance services but rather overtly
made it optional for the citizen to exercise his right to medical
examination and treatment in all clinics, centers, or with
practitioners, specialists and experts, and to access services
extended by family doctors, lab analyses and tests, x-rays,
hospitalization, and surgeries, follow-up sessions and delivery
operations for pregnant women and necessary medication and
others which the patient needs throughout stages of illness.