On October 10, the IX International Scientific Conference titled "Archival and Source Studies, Trends and Challenges" was held at the National Archives of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. The three-day conference brought together around 200 Georgian and international scientists and researchers.

Tengiz Verulava, a professor at Caucasus University and the director of the Health Policy Institute, presented a report on the " Historical precedents of social insurance and development barriers in Georgia."

See the conference program link.

After gaining independence, Georgia opted for the social insurance model when developing a new healthcare financing system. In 1995, the country introduced the social health insurance system (the Bismarck model). This decision aligned Georgia with trends in Eastern European countries at the time. 22 out of 28 countries in the European region have implemented the social health insurance system.

It is noteworthy that during the establishment of the first Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918, the country introduced a social insurance system, which at that time only a few advanced European countries had. This confirms that in that period, Georgia had not only one of the most democratic constitutions in the world, where the political and socio-economic rights of citizens were protected as much as possible, but also had a progressive system of social insurance. In the 1990s, after a hiatus of more than 75 years at the time of gaining independence, Georgia restored the broken line of development by introducing a social insurance system.

Caucasus University Health Care Policy Institute.