Financing authority won't be privatised, says Health Ministry

The Health Ministry's Director General, Ismail Merican, responded on 30 March 2005 to the Coalition's letter dated 8 March 2005, which had expressed concern about the proposed national health insurance scheme.

Among the salient points in Ismail's letter (reproduced below):

The Economic Planning Unit in the Prime Minister's department and the Health Ministry are studying the implementation of a health care financing mechanism.

They are setting up a National Health Care Financing Authority. It is proposed that this Authority will come under the Health Ministry and won't be privatised.

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