PN’s Radzi Jidin and PH’s Wong Chen say boosting public health care spending to 5% of the GDP can be funded by tackling corruption; BN’s Tengku Adnan simply says: “We know how to get the budget”.
The Galen Centre says it’s not enough to cut wastage or corruption to boost health care funding; PH, BN, and PN show business-as-usual for health financing without commitments to reform.
Saarani Mohamad says Perak is an ageing society, with the emigration of about 124,000 young people. About 11% of Perak’s population is aged 65 and older, nearly double the nationwide rate.
BN’s GE15 manifesto excludes the Health White Paper and tobacco GEG; ironically, it was PH that took up most of Khairy Jamaluddin’s health care reform ideas, including a pledge to cut smoking rates.