Government bills52
- HE 67/2026 vpPassed
Streamlining correction of erroneous Kela decisions
Kela will be able to correct a clear error in a benefit decision to the recipient's detriment without their consent if the error is due to the client's own conduct. In addition, the payment of sickness allowance could be suspended or reduced more quickly than before when circumstances change, to prevent overpayments from accumulating.
12 Jun 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 174/2024 vpPassed
Restoring Kela reimbursements for fertility treatments
Kela reimbursements will once again be available for private fertility treatments if infertility is caused by an illness. The change will make it easier to seek treatment in the private sector and aims to improve the birth rate.
3 Apr 2025 · 8 votes101 jaa54 ei - HE 111/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Medicine savings and deregulating self-care medicines
Prices of prescription medicines and pharmacies' gross margins will be cut, and the basis for determining the pharmacy tax will be reformed. At the same time, certain low-risk self-care medicines will be permitted for sale outside pharmacies and pharmacies will be given the right to deviate from prescriptions in situations of availability disruptions.
18 Dec 2025 · 12 votes90 jaa79 ei - HE 195/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Expanding and increasing Kela reimbursements
Patients will be able to receive Kela reimbursement for private dental hygienist and physiotherapist appointments without a doctor's referral. In addition, the Kela reimbursement paid for visits to specialists in gynaecology and obstetrics will be increased.
27 Mar 2025 · 14 votes145 jaa9 ei - HE 36/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Cheaper private doctors for over-65s
People aged 65 and over will be able to see a private general practitioner for the price of a public health centre client fee, and half the cost of examinations prescribed during the visit will be reimbursed. The amendment aims to speed up access to care for older people and reduce the burden on public primary healthcare.
19 Jun 2025 · 6 votes100 jaa84 ei - HE 123/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Cutting sickness and rehabilitation allowances
Sickness allowances and rehabilitation allowances will be cut for those earning more than 27,633 euros a year, and health insurance contribution liabilities will be transferred from the central government to employers and insured persons. The changes will strengthen central and local government finances, and they will apply from 1 January 2025.
28 Nov 2024 · 1 vote116 jaa51 ei - HE 150/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Improving pregnancy and organ donor benefits
Pregnant women will be eligible to receive special pregnancy allowance more often and also on a partial basis if working conditions endanger their health and no alternative work is available. Donors of organs, tissues or cells will be fully compensated for loss of earnings resulting from the procedure.
18 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 114/2025 vpPassed
Permanent price caps for Kela taxis
Maximum price regulation for taxi journeys reimbursed by Kela will be made permanent from the start of 2027. The change will ensure equal access to care for patients and keep travel costs predictable.
19 Nov 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 129/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Raising initial deductible for medicine reimbursements
The annual initial deductible for prescription medicine reimbursements will increase from 50 euros to 70 euros from the beginning of 2025 and will in future be tied to the national pension index. At the same time, pharmacies will be required to keep in stock and always offer customers the lowest-priced medicine option.
9 Dec 2024 · 3 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Hanna-Leena Mattila
103 jaa79 ei - HE 95/2024 vpPassed
Extending price caps for Kela taxis
The maximum price regulation for taxi journeys reimbursed by Kela will be extended by two years until the end of 2026. Clients will continue to pay only the statutory co-payment for their treatment journeys.
18 Oct 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 237/2022 vpPassed
Cutting Kela reimbursements for private healthcare
Kela reimbursements for private medical care will be cut significantly from the beginning of 2023. Reimbursements for most examinations, procedures and physiotherapy will be abolished, but reimbursements for mental health services and dental care will be retained.
13 Dec 2022 · 1 vote98 jaa72 ei - HE 236/2022 vpPassed
Strengthening family benefits and purchasing power
Several social benefits for families with children will be increased for 2023 due to accelerating inflation and rising prices. In addition, the annual out-of-pocket maximum for medicine reimbursements will be frozen for one year, and the care supplement of the private day care allowance will be increased permanently.
7 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 181/2022 vpPassed
Easing partial sickness and rehabilitation benefits
The maximum duration of partial sickness allowance will be extended and eligibility conditions will be eased to support staying in employment. At the same time, conditions for rehabilitation allowance and subsistence during rehabilitation will be improved, and the implementation of the benefits will be clarified.
30 Nov 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 129/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming family leave and parental allowances
Parental leave and parental allowances will be divided equally between both parents, and leave can be used flexibly until the child reaches the age of two. In addition, employees will be entitled to five days of annual carer's leave to care for a close relative.
21 Dec 2021 · 4 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Kaisa Juuso
85 jaa62 ei - HE 57/2023 vpPassed
Limiting the medicine ceiling increase
The increase in the annual out-of-pocket maximum for medicine expenses, or the medicine ceiling, will be limited from the start of 2024. The change prevents index increases from accumulating into a single year as a result of the 2023 freeze.
29 Nov 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · 8 §, mietintö / Ilmari Nurminen
86 jaa68 ei - HE 6/2023 vpPassed
Safeguarding supplementary pension and sickness funds
Supplementary pension foundations and funds established earlier will be allowed to continue their operations to their previous extent to pay voluntary supplementary pensions. Small sickness funds and other insurance funds that have received an exemption will also be permitted to continue operating below the statutory minimum size.
5 Oct 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 314/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Introducing pharmacy substitution for biological medicines
Pharmacies will be required to substitute expensive biological medicines with cheaper equivalents, known as biosimilars. At the same time, biological medicines will be brought within the reference price system for medicine reimbursements to reduce medicine costs.
21 Feb 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 138/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Improving reimbursements for medical care abroad
Finns will receive higher reimbursements for healthcare obtained in another EU or EEA country, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Reimbursement will be paid at the same level as what equivalent care would have cost in the domestic public healthcare system.
15 Feb 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 302/2022 vpPassed
Extending coronavirus test and vaccination reimbursements
Kela reimbursements for coronavirus tests carried out and coronavirus vaccinations administered in private healthcare will be extended until the end of June 2023. Travel costs incurred to receive a vaccination will also continue to be reimbursed.
8 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 163/2016 vpPassed
Lump-sum compensation for family leave costs
Employers will be paid a lump-sum compensation of 2,500 euros when an employee taking maternity leave is paid a salary during the leave. The change will level out the costs arising from family leave and improve women's employment opportunities.
15 Dec 2016 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen
104 jaa65 ei