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.
Update: The MPPP has decided not to take legal action against Jessie Ooi. Wise decision.Jessie Ooi did not observe proper etiquette during the Guan Eng-Soi Lek debate, but MPPP councillors are over-reacting by threatening a legal suit against her.
Whatever you may think of Anwar, he did manage to reduce the country’s budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP) and later even presided over surplus years.
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.
Uncertainty over the rising price of oil and a looming global economic slowdown could prompt the Prime Minister to bring forward the date of the general election.
The MPPP is embarking on a RM10-12m project to upgrade the heritage Chowrasta market – its first makeover since 1961. The old Chowrasta - Photograph: raafschoolpenang.comThe new-look Chowrasta market along Penang Road
Another attempt at dividing Malaysians by race: An MIC Youth office bearer has challenged N Surendran to a debate – but his challenge was brushed off by the PKR vice-president who insisted the MIC is “irrelevant”.
Live streaming of the run-up to the Chua Soi Lek-Lim Guan Eng debate on the weird topic “Is the Two-Party System Becoming a Two-Race System?” Actual debate starts at 5.00pm.
Update (17 February 2012): Curtin University never for a moment anticipated the ferocity of the backlash from Malaysians when it awarded a ‘honorary doctorate’ to Rosmah.
Anwar has hit the ceramah trail in Pahang, taking in a Felda scheme in Lanchang and now heading to Kuantan and then Pekan. Anwar at the Felda scheme in Lanchang, Temerloh
The deterioration in the standard of the English language is entrenching the income divide between wealthier Malaysians, who have access to an education in the English language and hence to wider opportunities, and lower-income Malaysians, who are denied such access.
The state government today held a ground-breaking ceremony for 12000 cheaper homes in Bandar Cassia in Batu Kawan on mainland Penang designed by the Singapore HDB consultants.
