Year | Policy measure | Coverage % |
---|---|---|
1941 | CCSS is founded, providing health insurance for urban workers with wages up to $ 52.63 a month | 3.0 |
1949 | The new Constitution retains the three-fold symmetrical financing (employers, workers and government); management remains at CCSS | 6.8 |
1954 | Health insurance covers the spouse | 11.9 |
1959 | The salary ceiling rises to $ 149.25 a month | 15.1 |
1961 | Insurance coverage is declared universal with a ten year grace period | 17.7 |
1962 | Health insurance was extended to rural workers | 20.3 |
1965 | Health insurance was extended for the whole family | 30.6 |
1970 | Phasing out the salary cap | 47.1 |
1971 | Compulsory retirement insurance affiliation for all workers | 51.5 |
1972 | Health insurance for college students | 53.8 |
1973 | All private hospitals are transferred to CCSS; government pays health insurance for extreme poverty citizens | 58.4 |
1974 | Retirement insurance to all elderly poor | 60.3 |
1975 | Voluntary health insurance and retirement insurance coverage | 59.6 |
1976 | Retirees under special schemes become eligible for health insurance | 61.8 |
1984 | Insurance arrangement under presumptive income (for self-employed and farmers) | 83.9 |
1995 | Compulsory health insurance for retirement insurance retired workers | 86.4 |
1996 | Universal student health insurance | 89.7 |
2001 | Worker Protection Act grants new legal instruments against tax evasion and forces self-employed to join the health insurance scheme | 87.5 |
2005 | Health insurance for vulnerable people (poor, indigenous and rural poor) paid by Government | 87.6 |