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Green (medicare) Card And Ethical Problems
Ömür ELÇİOĞLU*, İlhami ÜNLÜOĞLU**, Ayşegül DEMİRHAN ERDEMİR***
* Assis.Prof. Osmangazi University School of Medicine Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Eskişehir** Assoc.Prof . Osmangazi University School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine, Eskişehir *** Prof.Dr. Uludağ University School of medicine Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine , Bursa, TURKEY
As a resulh of developing technology, the obligation of society to increase the financing of health services have caused it to get bigger and bigger day by day. In our country, nearly one-third of the population has no systemic social guaranty.In order to solve this problem, Law no.3816 concerning Green Cards became valid on june 18,1992 and still valid. Thanks to law Turkish citizens residing in Turkey but with no guarantees under any social security association and who can not afford the expenses of health services are covered and paid by the state until the application of General Health Insurance (According to Business Law No.1475, the monthly salary or income in the family should be less than one-third minimum wage excluding tax and social insurance premium)With this law, the expenses of the people with Green Cards for ambulatory treatments without medicine, and all expenses with bed-fast treatment have been covered by Ministry of health. Although it has been decade since the first expenditure of law, it is still valid , because General Health Insurance has not yet been presented. About Green Card application:-The presence of rumors about the politicians has an effect on the distribution of Green Cards-There are problems with patient forms in the event of emergency-During the postnatal period, when it is necessary to send the baby to another hospital, the baby does not have the same right as its mother with with Creen CardsThese are some of the problems we have faced during its application.Keywords: Yeşil Kart, Genel Sağlık Sigortası, EtikTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2003, 11:8-11
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