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Malaysia is exploring a national health insurance scheme funded by employees, employers, and the government that will be \u201crun by the government, non-profit driven, and uses the philosophy of shared responsibility,” says Dr Zaliha Mustafa, the Minister of Health.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE THE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is working on introducing a national health insurance scheme with contributions from employees, employers, and the government in efforts to reform healthcare financing.<\/p>\n In her winding-up speech on the Supply Bill 2024<\/a> last Monday, Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa said this was one of the mechanisms under study by the MOH to diversify healthcare financing.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ministry is observing and weighing various health financing mechanisms, including the ability to execute a progressive contributory scheme option that is social health insurance, or national health insurance, with contributions from employees, employers, and also the government,\u201d Dr Zaliha told parliamentarians.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, this is insurance run by the government, non-profit driven, and uses the philosophy of shared responsibility.<\/p>\n \u201cApart from that, the ministry is also exploring other options to increase national health funding, including increasing government allocations for health, reviewing the health subsidy Fees Act in a targeted way, using zakat\u00a0<\/em>funds and maybe wakaf<\/em>\u00a0and also donations.<\/p>\n \u201cAny progressive contribution mechanism scheme that will be proposed needs to be sustainable, equitable and also affordable as well as protect the people from harmful health expenditure.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Zaliha was responding to Dr Zulkafperi Hanapi (PN-Tanjong Karang), who had urged the health minister to develop a social health insurance scheme, deeming the Peka B40 health screening programme and the Madani Medical Scheme<\/a> (SPM) to be unsustainable.<\/p>\n