With income from health insurance contributions, government funding via general taxation, and ‘co-payments’, the proposed 1Care financing model would create a huge health care financing fund. Continue reading »
Feb 252012
Feb 252012
Our pitiful global ranking, that’s what. Look at our global ranking for public health care spending as a percentage of GDP.
Feb 222012
In the first place, the Malaysian government spending on health care is a miserly 2 per cent of GDP – well below WHO recommendations and the global average. Continue reading »
Nov 272011
Live coverage of a major forum on the future of health care in Malaysia being held in Penang this afternoon. The forum begins at 2.00pm.
Aug 092011
There is a significant divide in opinion in how the US budget deficit should be cut – and this divide has been heightened in the wake of S&P’s downgrade of the US economy. Continue reading »