ON THE ISSUE OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, AS A FORM OF SOCIAL PROTECTION Slavinskaya Yulia Vitalievna, postgraduate student. <...> Place of study: Accounting Chamber National research institute. <...> Place of employment: Moscow financial industrial universitв “SвnОrgв”. <...> E-mail: YuSlavinskaya@yandex.ru Annotation The aim of writing a research work is to determine the characteristics of forms of social protection of health insurance in the Russian Federation. <...> Special attention is concentrated on the development of theoretical and practical conclusions about the effectiveness of the health insurance as a system in the public health circles. <...> Methodological basis is a complex of methods of scientific knowledge, where the dialectical materialist method of knowledge plays the main role. <...> At the same time had been used the basic techniques of research in low science. <...> As a result of the writing of this research work the author had made a number of conclusions and proposals, but the main was the conclusion about the results of the research, where it was known that a little more than a quarter of respondents in the territory of one of the municipality population had an information about their rights, so we can presume that in the same way the population is informed about their duties. <...> At the same time to mark up the effectiveness of the system of obligingly health insurance it is needed to place the information boards in health care facilities or health insurance organization, or a branch of the Territorial Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund (hereinafter - MI) The information published in this way will help to improve awareness of the MI in both population and healthcare professionals, as well as systematic monitoring carried out in the territories. <...> The practical meaning of this research is in the fact that the characteristic of the health insurance system had been given at the same time with real suggestions to improve the efficiency of its operation and functioning. <...> Целью написания исследовательской работы является определение особенностей формы социальной зашиты медицинского страхования в Российской Федерации. <...> Особое внимание уделено разработке теоретических и практических выводов об эффективности функционирования медицинского страхования, как целостной системы в сфере охраны здоровья населения! <...>