Seyfettin Gürsel, Burak Darbaz, Ulaş Karakoç
Green Card program aims to provide free health care for people who have income levels below an income threshold and who do not collect social security benefits. According to 2006 data, out of 72.6 million people in Turkey, there are 10.2 million Green Card holders (14.1 percent). While an average person earns 8 564 TL annually, an average Green Card holder earns 3 288 TL. This implies that Green Card serves its target population to certain degree. However, 19.8 percent of population, i.e. 1 person out of 5, is deprived of any type of health insurance. On one hand, out of 15 million people who constitute the poorest 30 percent of the working age population, 4.5 million lack health insurance, being neither registered at Social Security Institution, nor Green Card holders. On the other hand, 21 percent of Green Card holders have income levels exceeding the threshold level for Green Card eligibility, signaling a wide misuse.
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