Viable Cheap Healthcare
ONE praiseworthy legacy of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration is the Social Security Management Agency (BPJS). After six months, this ambitious program is starting to show results.
We no longer hear of low-income patients being turned away by hospitals. Thousands have received cheap, or even free, medicine. But there is no easy way to realize the dream of a healthcare system for 253 million citizens. There are still many shortcomings with the BPJS that have to be rectified. When that is done, the BPJS can be described as a revolution in healthcare.
June 17, 2014
ONE praiseworthy legacy of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration is the Social Security Management Agency (BPJS). After six months, this ambitious program is starting to show results.
We no longer hear of low-income patients being turned away by hospitals. Thousands have received cheap, or even free, medicine. But there is no easy way to realize the dream of a healthcare system for 253 million citizens. There are still many shortcomings wi
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