Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 13 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
The problem of health insurance can become Iran's next crisis, Iran's deputy minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare, Seyyed Abdollah Emadi said, Mehr reported.
Emadi noted that the state of health insurance in the country is unfortunate, and if no appropriate measures are taken, it could threaten the country's future.
"The use of funds for insurance companies in Iran is unbalanced," Emadi said.
"The government does not give enough attention to the health insurance problems in the country."
He went on saying that today's Pension Insurance Fund in Iran is on the brink of bankruptcy, and if the present situation continue, all the future insurance funds will be meeting the same fate.
According to Iran's Civil Servants Pension Fund (CSPF), there was slightly over a million of pensioners in the country, in 2010.
Over 93 percent of them were men, and over 6 percent were women.
Iranian media outlets reported earlier that Iran's elderly population of 40 plus years will reach some 26 million in the near future, and the government has expressed concerns over the rapid population aging.
According to some forecasts, in 42 years, Iran's population will reach some 130 million people, approximately 20 percent of which would be elderly.
Iran's current population is some 70 million, and the number of people aged over 60 years of age accounts for roughly 5 million.