Malaysian Healthcare

by INVISIBLEWRITER001

How far have we progressed?

Do you think we have progressed enough to be in the same league as other progressed nation?I’m actually 2 hearted in this issue. In a way we can consider ourselves as being progressed but there are other aspects that further need development.

The world can’t deny what we’ve achieved. But I realized there are a few things that we can do better.We know what need to be done and we know how to do it. But how serious are we in doing that? Many might wonder what

I’m talking about? Well…I’m talking about our healthcare. Where are we when it comes to healthcare?A millionaire once told me. If one day I were to jumped into the business realm, do consider some fool proof business provided I manage it well of course.

Healthcare is one of the businesses mentioned, for the reason people will get sick at least once in their lifestyle. In healthcare, the whole world is your market.I find a bit odd and ‘zalim’ to capitalize on someone else misery.

I don’t have the heart to ask for payment from someone who’s sick or just lost a family member.

But then again that’s the nature of healthcare business.But isn’t it healthcare supposed to be part of national agenda to provide the best healthcare at affordable price? ‘Yes’ to “provide the best healthcare” and ‘No’ to “at affordable price”. The government can provide the best healthcare at affordable price.

But unfortunately they can’t do this everywhere. The government has it owns limitation. One is financial resources. They have to priorities in other things for the rakyat. If they still need to provide this, we have to pay more on taxes.What we see today is the rakyat have to pay big sum of money for healthcare.

The arguments being, you have to pay for best service. I agree, but my argument being “at what price?” It’s pretty subjective whenever this matter comes into argument. It’ll be a never ending story. In order to settle this dispute rather amicably, the solution is to get you a health policy.But even today, health policy isn’t paying for everything.

Those days, you pay an X amount of money to get X amount of health benefits including treatment, medication and surgery. But today, with the same X amount of money you’re getting less and it’ll get lesser tomorrow.

So, at the end of the day or in the near future, X amount of money may only cover your cough drops. It’ll worth nothing and you still have to fork out a lot of money for your healthcare.So, what choice do we have?

What can the rakyat do to get the best healthcare at affordable price without putting too much burden on the government’s shoulder?

The answer is simple, take care of your health. Eat right and exercise regularly. That’s easier said for some.

But what about someone who’re not eating right and don’t exercise? Unfortunately they don’t have much choice. But one of the limited choices that we still have is to get the government to re-look into the National Health Policy, if we really do have one.

The government need to make Health Policy a compulsory. We’ll have a standard policy for everyone. In a way the healthy once are paying for the sick. But what about hospitals? This policy will have the private hospital as the main ‘benefactors’.

Since the private hospitals can’t charge a lot, the government should look into giving subsidies to them private hospitals to maintain their profit margins.There should only be one body providing this policy and it’s being monitored by an independent body.

In this situation we don’t need competition as this might lead to cartel and price increase like we see today.

There are lotsa things when we talk about healthcare. At this moment there are lotsa things that need improvement. But we can’t put everything on to government’s shoulder. The very least we can do is eat right and exercise regularly.