OREANDA-NEWS. March 04, 2008. The insurance company "ROSNO-MS" and the Higher School of Economics have held a roundtable discussion "Healthcare Financing Innovations: Ways to Combine Social Solidarity and Individual Responsibility", reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

The insurance group ROSNO was represented by the Deputy General Manager of OJSC "ROSNO" O. M. Stepennova, Executive Director of OJSC "ROSNO-MS" L. D. Popovich and Advisor to the General Manager of OJSC "ROSNO" K. M. Kelmanson. Contributions to the discussion were made by representatives of the Public Chamber, Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance, Russian Healthcare Supervision Department, Accounting Chamber, RF regional authorities, chief executives of the largest insurance companies, scientific and medical institutions; independent experts, and scientists. The seminar was presided by the Research Director of the Higher School of Economics, Mr. E.G.Yasin.

The participants’ materials and presentations have drawn a brisk discussion. Among the issues raised during the roundtable were "reasons behind the emerging need in search for alternative ways to finance healthcare", "opportunities and prospects of the system of personal accumulative medical aid accounts", "adequacy of merging obligatory and voluntary medical insurance", "advantages and shortcomings of the fixed public co-payments system", and "methods for promotion of healthcare financing innovations".

This event has become the first in the scheduled series of seminars and roundtable discussions dedicated to the most urgent issues of the healthcare reform in the Russian Federation.

The seminar materials have been published by the official websites of the insurance group ROSNO: www.rosno.ru and www.rosno-ms.ru.