Pakatan Harapan’s GE15 manifesto should be welcomed as a recognition of the real (but often ignored) problems that Malaysians are facing now with health, and social and aged care.
Nephrologist Dr Lim Soo Kun says national health insurance will reduce catastrophic expenditure faced by cancer and organ failure patients paying out of pocket. Health analyst Chua Hong Teck suggests restoring GST and earmarking it for health spending.