URGENT QUESTIONNAIRE

FOR ALL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROVISION, AND FOR PROVIDERS OF ADVANCED LEVEL HEALTH INSURANCE IN SLOVENIA

 

 

Please choose the answers which seem correct to you:

 

 

 

1. Non-Slovenian citizens can only obtain a permanent residence permit in Slovenia after obtaining five years of continuous temporary residence permits

 

a) true

 

b) false

 

c) it’s not my department / I don’t know

 

 

 

2. Temporary residence permits in Slovenia are for:

 

a) Slovenian citizens      

 

b) Foreigners    

 

c) I don’t know

 

d) Other (please describe)

 

 

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3. Advanced level health insurance in Slovenia, covering 100% of the cost of the treatments on the Positive List:

 

a) is not available to foreigners at all 

 

b) is available to EU citizens only

 

c) is not available to foreigners unless they have a permanent residence permit

 

d) is available to all foreigners        

 

e) is available under certain circumstances (please describe what under what circumstances it is available)

 

 

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4. If answer to Q3 is NOT a) does the advanced level insurance cost the insuree

 

a) the same as for Slovenian citizens

 

b) more than for Slovenian citizens

 

c) less than for Slovenian citizens

 

 

 

5. If the answer to Q3 is NOT a) does the advanced level insurance provide the foreign resident with

 

a) the same cover as Slovenian citizens

 

b) more cover than Slovenian citizens

 

c) less cover than Slovenian citizens

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. If you are a provider of advanced health insurance and the answer to Q5 is NOT a), is it different because

 

a) treating foreigners is more expensive

 

b) foreigners have different healthcare expectations to Slovenian citizens

 

c) we don’t really expect foreigners to live in Slovenia

 

d) it’s a good way to get more money

 

e) some other reason or reasons (please describe the reason or reasons)

 

 

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7. When a foreign resident gets a permanent residence permit

 

a) the Upravna Enota informs the ZZZS electronically

 

b) the resident must take an easily-forged little scrap of paper from the Upravna Enota to the ZZZS

 

c) both

 

d) other (please describe how the information should be communicated from the Upravna Enota to the ZZZS)

 

 

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8. An insuree can obtain basic (and advanced) cover regardless of residential status if he is an employee, or self-employed, but not on an avtorska pogodba.

 

a) true

 

b) false

 

 

9. An insuree able to obtain advanced cover will have to pay retrospectively for the period during which he was not previously insured in Slovenia, even for a period during which he would have been legally unable to obtain such cover because of his residential/employment status

 

a) definitely true

 

b) definitely not true

 

c) it depends on the circumstances (state under what circumstances and for what period retrospective premiums would have to be paid)

 

 

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10. Foreign residents in Slovenia without private health insurance, who are unemployed, or disabled, or without a permanent residence permit, or whose passport has expired, are not entitled to affordable health treatment equally with Slovenian citizens, because:

 

a) we don’t like them staying here: they were meant to just lose all their money then leave

 

b) foreigners will always be richer than Slovenians

 

c) don’t know / it’s the law / we don’t make the rules

 

d) the higher cost to foreigners is outweighed by the much cheaper access to tobacco and alcohol they have here; lax environmental standards also save them money

 

e) some other reason (please state why foreigners without these things are not entitled to affordable health treatment equally with Slovenian citizens)

 

 

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11. If I thought that my actions at work affected people in a way that was unconstitutional, or illegal, or legal but immoral, or unfair, or racially, economically, or in some other way discriminatory, I would

 

a) just carry on without a care in the world

 

b) worry about it a bit then carry on: I need the money

 

c) have to ask someone higher up

 

d) refuse to perform those actions

 

 

 

 

I AGREE that my answers may be freely made public in the public interest, signed by

 

 

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position in organisation and location

 

 

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on behalf of

 

 

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(organisation name)

 

 

 

(official stamp)

 

 

 

 

 

Note: refusal to answer relevant questions will be publicised nationally and internationally anyway