The government is in the process of implementing a national health scheme for all Malaysians. All of us will be affected one way or another. That is why I decided , as a medical practitioner, to research and delve deeper into the issues, the pros and cons, and how it is going to affect the ordianry people as well as medical personnel.
It is definitely worth taking a look, since it is going to affect your healthcare as well as your pocket.
Malaysian Healthcare – a critical look at the proposed National Health Financial Scheme
To view the pdf file, pls click on the above.
[...] This scheme if implemented is going to affect everyone living in Malaysia. It is going to change our lives whether we like it or not. You may want to read it. It is saved in pdf format and is filed under “pages” .All figures are referenced and most of the figures are from WHO reports. ( page link: http://hsudarren.wordpress.com/malaysian-healthcare-a-critical-look-at-the-proposed-national-health-financial-schememalaysian-healthcare-a-critical-look-at-the-proposed-national-health-financial-scheme/) [...]
By: National Health Scheme « Dr Hsu’s Forum on October 27, 2006
at 1:46 pm
I agree fully with you that the present health care system is the way to go.
However, instead of allocating more money to health care, the BN government prefers to squander billions on useless projects!
I would like to state that doctors, especially specialist, will charge their patients a much higher fee when they knew that such patients have health insurance. This was my experience.
This government is going to make a fool of itself just like the previous one.
Remember, the erstwhile premier who said that agreements signed with the privatised companies, which were heavily in the latters’ favour, were stupid but the cabinet ministers who agreed to them were not lawyers.
So, the current incumbent, who is keeping everything under the OSA (like his predecessor), is making the same stupid mistakes.
This shows that they never learn!
What’s the use of telling the public later that ministers are not lawyers when everything is already in a mess?
It is the people, especially the poor, who have to carry the burden. The government got off so easily.
I wonder why on earth the voters would ever want to cast their votes for this government.
They must be masochistic!!
By: Winston on May 29, 2007
at 5:07 pm
After 50 years….and wasting billions…the government is back to basic….caring for the welfare of Malaysians?
Better late than never……….I guess.
By: monsterball on April 12, 2008
at 12:33 am
BN is well known internationally for big idea, grand project n mega schemes, but who is the beneficiary in all these billions dollars blue print? obviously not the ordinary Malaysians at large at the end of the day.
By: bow on April 13, 2008
at 8:21 am
It is quite disconcerting to note that the government approach to rising cost was to privatise. The piper has to be paid one way or another. By privatising what the government had done was to transfer the cost into private concerns who are invariably motivated and driven by profit. By privatising some of its operations does it solve the basic inefficiency of the government departments ?
Your report is also glaringly incomplete in that it failed to consider alternatives or complementary medicine. In USA and europe alternatives are quickly becoming mainstream from of treatment when more people started to realise that evidence-based medicine or modern medicine is a failed paradigm. Such failure is no better reflected in the following study done by Gary Nul et al :
“Death by medicine”
http://www.herbdatanz.com/death_by_meds.htm
Many allopaths(modern day doctor)proudly proclaimed that modern medicine is modern because it is progressive. It learns and and modify its treatment with new knowledge. What many didn’t realise was that it is precisely because modern medicine is flawed in its foundation and the tool (scientific inquiry) is blind that so many patients have to die before any light is seen at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand alternative such as homoeopathy came about from intuitive insights – the complete seeing in an instance – Hahnemann did add to his initial insight later but his later insights were just as penetrating and because of that he was able to treat many chronic ailment that seems to defy modern medicine explanation.
An honest appraisal of some of the well-known alternatives such as homoeopathy and traditional chinese medicine will lead one to appreciate these healing art form. As a notable example of allopaths who had done so was a Dr. Mahendralal Sirkar who was the Vice president of the British Medical Association (bengal branch). He had denounced homoeopathy as quackary but repeatedly seeing cases cured by babu Rajendralal Dutta, a lay practitioner of homoeopathy. Cases he couldn’t cure was easily cured by him. He decided to find out for himself what was the truth of homoeopathy. He gave up a very lucrative medical practice and was boycotted by BMA and in his reply he said
“Truth must be told, and truth must be acted upon”. After going through much tribulation he became a towering giant of homoeopathy in India.
By: Kok chee chiong on July 27, 2008
at 11:13 am
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!
By: MichaellaS on July 21, 2009
at 5:06 pm