1 company for 1Care
The new healthcare system - 1Care for 1Malaysia - will be managed by a single body. Many had earlier assumed that if it is run by a single company, it would spell monopoly as seen here . There are those who believe there is nothing wrong with the current system as written here . Several GPs spoke to the author claiming the whole project "is rushed". It was reported in the NST last year that it will take at least 10 years for the scheme to be implemented but the ministry have broken the time line into several phrases with a bulk of the project being introduced by 2015 with full implementation in 2020. This was confirmed by deputy health minister Rosnah Rashid Shirlin ( pic ) who told the author the funds of the 1Care system will be managed by "a single not-for-profit government autonomous agency that will be supervised by the Health Ministry (MoH)". "The universal coverage already exists in Malaysia whereby people have access to health care and nobody is d...