Politics and Sustainable Free Health Care
Politics and Sustainable Free Health Care
Marthen L. Ndoen
Abstract
Indonesia has gone through a series of political changes since the fall of the New Order regime. The people of Indonesia have been granted more freedom of speech or freedom of expressons, which, in the past such rights were only part of political discourse but never be realised. Direct parliament and presidential election also were introduced after Soeharto succumbbed his power in 1998. Moreover, local people at the district level are granted the autonomy, in which direct election was introduced to select district leader. Eventhough, health care is considered as the right that should be provided by the authorities, but not all local governments realised about this. Several local governments have introduced free health care for their local people, as part of the promise during the campaign. But, the question is about the sustainability of this program, since that will put pressures on the budget. As long the budget is sufficient, a region will be able to launched free medic care program, but whenever that region short of funding, it will postpone that program. One of the major issue is that free medic care has been used as themes in political campaign, therefore, the sustainability of this program depends on the candidate who won the election. Whenever the local leaders loose his/her seat, the free heatlh care program might be suspended.
Unduh Abstrak “Politics and Sustainable Free Health Care“
Paper berjudul Politics and Sustainable Free Health Care ini dipresentasikan pada “1st Asia Pacific Conference Health Law” yang diadakan pada 19 Mei sampai dengan 22 Mei 2010 di Manado, Sulawesi Utara. Full paper dan powerpoint akan diunggah di website ini segera.
