Your Money or Your Life?
The BN government thinks that your health and life - or rather your sickness and desire to live - is a great market to tap into.This is because in the 10th Malaysia Plan, the government says that it should no longer treat healthcare as a social obligation but as a very profitable income generating sector.
But to us ordinary rakyat, things are more down to earth than the billion ringgit healthcare profits the government and big business are drooling after: 1. Healthcare is the moral responsibility of Government 2. Our health is not for sale and profit from 3. The sick and weak are not in a position to negotiate 4. Cost of healthcare is the government's responsibility and should not be shifted to the Rakyat 5. Tak Nak 1Care! _Join the movement, spread the word!
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In August 2010, Anil Netto wrote an article which put some numbers to the cost of healthcare privatisation in Malaysia. Costs soar after health services privatised "In 1996, health care support services were privatised to three companies: Faber Medi-Serve Sdn Bhd (FMS), Radicare (M) Sdn Bhd and Pantai Medivest Sdn Bhd. For the 13 years from 1997 to 2009, the three companies were paid a total of RM8.7 billion, broken down as follows: Faber RM4.0b Radicare RM3.2b Pantai Rm1.5b" With 1Care, the government's stated intention is to encourage individual government units to act as "private entities" after being merged with private healthcare system. If government guidelines couldn't stop privatisation from increasing costs, what's to stop COMPLETE privatisation through 1Care from driving cost even higher? But the government now seems hell-bent on pushing 1Care privatisations through after putting it off for over 2 decades. Click HERE for more evidence of the government's intention to privatise healthcare in Malaysia at the rakyat's expense. _ |
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Consultant for 1Care to the MOH, Dr William Hsiao
Get to know the person who's going to change all our lives for better or worst.
Dr Hsiao and his team is supposed to be in Malaysia for 3 years (starting December 2011) to help the BN government work out the details of 1Care implementation.
William C. Hsiao is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. A renowned economist, his research is focused on payment methods for hospitals and physicians in the context of national health insurance programs.
Who Pays for Health Care?
This is an article about William C. Hsiao's healthcare reforms. The worst part of this article is Dr Hsiao's opinion about people's livelihood:
“Empirical studies on U.S. companies find that payroll taxes imposed on employers were passed back to employees over time in the form of lower wages or lower pensions and other fringe benefits,” Hsiao’s report says. “In other words, the burden of payroll tax on employers was actually borne by employees.”
So it doesn't matter that people are going have to be paid less so that the the social health insurance can be sustained. Business profits are what matters!
HSPH Professor Helps with Vermont Health Care Reform
The social healthcare insurance Dr Hsiao helped devise in Vermont is very similar to 1Care's model. So it's nonsense for the government to say that nothing has been decided. The 1Care vehicle already been chosen, it's just a matter of filling in the minor details of the package.
The worst part of this report is Dr Hsiao's opinion about healthcare providers:
“Right now our whole structure is if you get sick I treat you and I get income. If you do not get sick, I don’t get paid. It’s not rocket science to see that is unsustainable,” Hsiao says.
So his opinion is that it doesn't matter if the rakyat is sick or not, as long as they pay to keep doctors and hospitals profitable! Health is not the issue at all, profits are what's really important!
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan
This is an interview with the New York Times. Dr Hsiao talks about his solution for Taiwan. On the surface, a lot of this sounds good - if you're just looking at it from an economic / profitability point of view. But if you're reading it from a rakyat point of view, then we can see how much bad news it is for ordinary people. Excerpts:
"The government literally sent people to find the homeless under bridges and enroll them (in the National Health Insurance)."
"In every country, health care costs are increasing faster than wages. When that happens, the premium has to go up."
You may also notice that all the NHI system's positives that Dr William mentions are financial / economic and all negatives are healthcare.
This kind of system?
TAK NAK!
This is an article about William C. Hsiao's healthcare reforms. The worst part of this article is Dr Hsiao's opinion about people's livelihood:
“Empirical studies on U.S. companies find that payroll taxes imposed on employers were passed back to employees over time in the form of lower wages or lower pensions and other fringe benefits,” Hsiao’s report says. “In other words, the burden of payroll tax on employers was actually borne by employees.”
So it doesn't matter that people are going have to be paid less so that the the social health insurance can be sustained. Business profits are what matters!
HSPH Professor Helps with Vermont Health Care Reform
The social healthcare insurance Dr Hsiao helped devise in Vermont is very similar to 1Care's model. So it's nonsense for the government to say that nothing has been decided. The 1Care vehicle already been chosen, it's just a matter of filling in the minor details of the package.
The worst part of this report is Dr Hsiao's opinion about healthcare providers:
“Right now our whole structure is if you get sick I treat you and I get income. If you do not get sick, I don’t get paid. It’s not rocket science to see that is unsustainable,” Hsiao says.
So his opinion is that it doesn't matter if the rakyat is sick or not, as long as they pay to keep doctors and hospitals profitable! Health is not the issue at all, profits are what's really important!
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan
This is an interview with the New York Times. Dr Hsiao talks about his solution for Taiwan. On the surface, a lot of this sounds good - if you're just looking at it from an economic / profitability point of view. But if you're reading it from a rakyat point of view, then we can see how much bad news it is for ordinary people. Excerpts:
"The government literally sent people to find the homeless under bridges and enroll them (in the National Health Insurance)."
"In every country, health care costs are increasing faster than wages. When that happens, the premium has to go up."
You may also notice that all the NHI system's positives that Dr William mentions are financial / economic and all negatives are healthcare.
This kind of system?
TAK NAK!