Review of the 2025 National Budget Bill (15): Article 16 (Health)

Abstract
Article 16 of the 2025 national budget bill, titled Health, consists of five clauses addressing the following topics:
Health insurance, life insurance, and retirement benefits for medical sciences assistants;
The reserve account for the allocation and payment of credits related to medicines and other health-related items, as well as the receivables of universities/medical schools from insurance organizations; A six-month reserve stockpile of essential medicines and medical supplies; The determination of a minimum percentage of levies on harmful goods and the allocation of ten percent of the revenues generated from taxes and levies on harmful goods to health, specifically for the development of healthcare infrastructure in rural and underprivileged areas. The detailed clauses and expert evaluations regarding each are presented in Tables 1 and 2, respectively.
Subjects

 [1] قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
 [2] سیاستهای کلی اقتصاد مقاومتی، ابلاغی1۳۹2/11/2۹
[۳] سیاستهای کلی سلامت، ابلاغی1۳۹۳/01/18
[4] سیاستهای کلی نظام قانونگذاری، ابلاغی1۳۹8/07/0۹
[5] سیاستهای کلی نظام اداری، ابلاغی1۳8۹/01/14
[6] قانون برنامه هفتم توسعه جمهوری اسلامی ایران (مصوب1403/04/02)