Willemstad: --- The parliament of the Netherlands Antilles has given health Minister Omayra Leeflang the green light to keep all pensioners and their families under the Social Insurance Bank fund. A press release from the president of parliament Pedro Attacho states that he already informed the Minister of Public Health during the Central Committee meeting held last Tuesday that a majority of the members went along with her proposal to keep former civil servants and their families who became 60 years old under the Social Insurance Bank fund. (SVB). The members of the central committee accepted the proposal anticipating that there would be a change in the law regarding the issue of health care for the elderly.
This decision is also applicable to persons who, because of the health insurance system in the Netherlands, ceased to have health insurance and that have left the Netherlands and have established themselves in the Netherlands Antilles.
On this issue, a majority of the Members of Parliament present during the meeting of the Central Committee, agreed to have the SVB act accordingly, meaning that the SVB can go ahead with accepting these people in the health insurance fund of the SVB.
Finally, the President of Parliament urged Minister Leeflang to submit the draft of the law to Parliament as soon as possible.
