Unit 3: Medicine

Government should provide fund for free healthcare

WHO defines health as a mental, physical and social welfare condition that functions normally not only from the absence of an illness. In articles 10 health stated to realize optimal health degrees for the community, organized health efforts with a maintenance approach, health improvement (promotive), disease prevention (preventive), cure (curative), and recovery health (rehabilitation) that is carried out in a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable manner. So, I agree that statement about government should to provide fund free healthcare. Here my all reason for supporting the statement.

                First, I agree that right for living. We as the human need the healthcare for the right living. This supported in Article 28 H paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution states that everyone has the right to live prosper physically and spiritually, live, and get a good and environment healthy and entitled to health services. The best way to right for living by citizens got free healthcare (BPJS).

                My second argument is about Imbalance economic levels. As we know that Indonesia as developing country have many imbalance on economic levels. If you have seen that stated in the release of the 2018 Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the structure of the Indonesian economy spatially still faces economic inequality between regions. It means that the citizen needs the fund free for healthcare, because it will increasing economic benefits for the citizens.

                My last argument is about tax obligations. As we know that we as the citizens should to pay the taxes, we will got the benefits from the taxes especially for healthcare. As Director General of Financial Balance of the Ministry of Finance Boediarso Teguh Widodo said, according to the provisions stipulated in the Health Act, basically the Regional Government is obliged to allocate at least 10 percent of its APBD expenditure to the health budget. The government have much tax allocation for free healthcare, it can cover healthcare for all the citizens.

                However, not all citizens agree about that statement. Some of them argue that the citizen should to pay private insurance because the private insurance have many benefits and facilities for the users. Although private insurance have many facilities but the not all citizens can pay the private insurance because BPS Data: Average Salary of Workers in Indonesia Rp. 2.83 Million Per Months. You can imagine that how the citizens can pay the private insurance is too much expensive to reach. Its depends on choices of citizens.