Sick employees and self-employed people must be monitored more closely by the health insurance funds. In the first year after their dropout, they would have to physically report to the health insurance doctor three times. This is stated in the last major bill that Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) is introducing this legislature to reverse the growing trend of long-term illness, ‘De Tijd’ wrote on Wednesday.
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“Sick employees are required to undergo three check-ups with a health insurance fund doctor in the first year of absence,” says Vandenbroucke.
