Thanks Poyap for the positive comments.

I would like to bring up a point of discussion & that is
Government Health Insurance Scheme.

After returning to PNG last month I saw that PMGH is
slowly deteriorating & it seems that it will never get any
better or progress in terms of the quality of health
services it is providing.

Ofcourse donor aids may rescue us but remember donor aids
are intermittent things, they come & go. We need to
sustain & maintain those infrastructure in place and one
way of doing it is to introduce a government health
insurance scheme-could be an arm of the health department.

It should be made compulsory that all working people
should pay health insurance to the government (tha scheme)
every forthnight. If a million people pay K1 each than it
is already 1 million kina. Even the village people and the
unemployed or self employed people in Towns & cities can
pay K1 a fortnight. It is not a burden at all of them.
There should be a policy in place at all government
hospitals that 'no health insurance ID cards no health
service'.

The money collected from this insurance scheme can be used
to directly pay 70-80% of a person health services fee &
the person can bear the rest. In this way an individual is
paying a 100% of the health services fee & the hospital is
not 'drained' as well there is no economic burden on the
person.

Well there are 2 problems that I can imagine here:
1. Takes time & initially may be costly to start this
insurance scheme
2. Misappropriation of funds within this new system

Thanks! Any other opinion on this idea?

William



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