10 October 2022
The Health Ministry’s Budget 2023 comprises 1.98% of Malaysia’s GDP, the same share as in 2022; the Health White Paper targets 5% of the GDP.
Tag: health financing
16 August 2022
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.
16 August 2022
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.
3 August 2022
Future-proof health financing options will be included in the Health White Paper that is to be presented by year end, says Khairy Jamaluddin.
25 October 2021
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.
28 June 2021
The extra RM400 million allocation is to cover 130% of the population, up from 120% coverage with the earlier RM3.5 billion budget.
30 March 2021
The planned change in Singapore’s inpatient and outpatient subsidies by the middle of 2022 will give bigger subsidies to lower-income patients.
24 June 2020
Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman calls for more investments into clinics instead of building more hospitals.
5 June 2020
The RM1 payment for public health care is unsustainable, says Universiti Malaya’s Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman.
2 June 2020
Outpatient health care formed the biggest component of out-of-pocket expenditure, according to NHMS 2019.