Khairy Jamaluddin says Cabinet must decide on whether to reduce “regressive” fuel subsidies to invest in public health care instead, admitting it’s very hard to double MOH’s annual budget to RM70 billion.
Prof Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid says Indonesia’s health financing system and social health insurance doubled the country’s total health spending and halved out-of-pocket expenditure.
Medical groups call for digitisation in health care, ring-fenced tax revenue for NCDs, tax incentives for GPs, effective tobacco harm reduction, and ageing care post-Covid.