PETALING JAYA: An academic has raised fears of a two-tier healthcare system emerging in Malaysia in which only the rich have access to good healthcare.
“The state is juggling multiple hats as funder and provider of public sector healthcare, as a regulator, and pre-eminent investor in for-profit healthcare,” he said, adding that the situation is rife with conflicts of interest. “This laudable intention, however, may have the unintended consequence of undermining any remaining stake that the upper middle classes have in public sector healthcare.
“The government needs to realise this, as a large part of the double-digit medical inflation occurring in Malaysia stems from high charges imposed by private hospitals owned by GLCs. “We need to migrate to a national health insurance scheme where most of the population makes a monthly contribution to a national pool of funds similar to what you already have under SOCSO and EPF.
PH is turning healthcare into business for thier taukeh lobbyist maa. Not as righr for the rakyat. Rakyat suffer not just cost of living but now will be medically too wor.