Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman calls for more investments into clinics instead of building more hospitals.
Tag: health financing
The RM1 payment for public health care is unsustainable, says Universiti Malaya’s Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman.
Outpatient health care formed the biggest component of out-of-pocket expenditure, according to NHMS 2019.
27 February 2020
Interrupted Health Policies And Laws When Pakatan Fell
Deregulation of medical practitioners’ consultation fees, jail for not issuing prescriptions upon request, drug price controls, promotion of contract...
03 January 2020
Who’s Funding New Health Financing Reform? MOH Asked
The Malaysian Medical Association says there are no details about the government's new Sihat Bersama 2030 plan.
13 September 2019
Dzulkefly Moots Single-Payer Health Financing System
A single-payer system means health spending is primarily made by the government.
In Indonesia, social health insurance contributions are shared between employee and employer, and civil servant and government.
BN failed to implement a social health insurance system called 1Care modeled after the UK's NHS.
01 April 2019
Losing The Trees For The Forest?
Book Review The Private Healthcare Sector in Johor: Trends and Prospects Meghann Ormond & Lim Chee Han (2018) Singapore:...