{"id":25407,"date":"2016-07-29T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=25407"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T04:43:40","slug":"budget-2017-better-br1m-healthcare-plan-for-lower-income-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/budget-2017-better-br1m-healthcare-plan-for-lower-income-group","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2017: Better BR1M & Healthcare Plan For Lower Income Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Budget 2017 is predicted to be \u2018rakyat-centric\u2019, where goodies, additional subsidies and 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) continued to be given out to the lower income group.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary-General Tan Sri Dr Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah said BR1M will be reviewed for improvements, to help the lower income group to increase their income.<\/p>\n

Improvements on the programme can be in the form of mandatory training session for those who fall within the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThus after the training, they would be able to earn a higher income and come out of the group of BR1M recipients,\u201d he was quoted in The Sun Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Another announcement to be made in Budget 2017 is the implementation of a health insurance scheme for Malaysians<\/a>, said Mohd Irwan Serigar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis scheme will be able to directly reduce the burden on the government, because we spend more than RM20 billion just on medicines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The scheme is still currently being discussed and to be finalised by the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have presented it to the National Economic Council and other related entities to set up and manage the health insurance so that the low-income group can receive better health services,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

However, Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming has urged the Government to obtain industry and stakeholder feedback before proceeding with a proposed national healthcare insurance to avoid the public backlash that the previous 1Care national healthcare insurance received.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequence of this top-down decision making process is that there will be a lot of misinformation and speculation as to the underlying motivation for introducing this healthcare insurance scheme when it is announced. This will make it all but impossible to have a rational and fact-based discussion and debate on this issue,\u201d Ong said in a statement.<\/p>\n

[Source 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Image from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/h6>\n[sc:testallianz]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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