Basic Healthcare Service Should be Free to All Cit Essays - Health

Basic Healthcare Service Should be Free to All Cit Essays - Health Basic Healthcare Service Should be Free to All Citizens Mohamad Fikri Nizam Bin Mat Ghani 1412309 Soris Bin Hamadul 1412451 Madam Zuridah Hayati Binti Abdul Hamid Section 5 International Islamic University Malaysia 8 th December 2017 Basic Healthcare Service Should be Free to All Citizens Every living human needs to take care of their lives and health, making that basic healthcare is one of the important aspects in human beings life. The meaning of basic health services is the minimum degree of health care considered to be necessary to maintain adequate health and protection from disease. Basic health service also can be describe as benefits that all federally qualified health maintenance organisations (HMOs) must offer. For example, the diagnose of the patient, use of ambulance and issuance of non-controlled medicine or the medical service that does not need an extensive care such as flu where the patients can go to clinics and leave at the same day. In Malaysia, basic health service are mainly offered and maintained by government, although there exist private hospitals and clinics, public hospitals still the main choice for majority of the citizens. Furthermore, as quote from website of expat.com, "Malaysia offers some of the best healthcare in South-East Asia" (expat, 2011, p. 2). This proves that the Malaysia government have done their best in providing good health care service. However, the health service offered is not free of charges, instead the citizen needs to pay a small fee to get the treatment in public health institution, even if the fees is small and only nominal fees needs to be paid to get healthcare service especially in public clinic the citizen still have to paid for it (expat, 2011). This raise an issue because the citizens have paid the tax and even if they does not receive all health service free of charges they should at least receive basic health service free of charge but that did not happen. The basic healthcare service here are the services such as use of ambulance, diagnosis and issuance of non-controlled medicine which should be free to the citizens because the citizens have already paid the public healthcare through the general taxation of income like income tax (expat, 2011). Thus, it is agreed that basic health care service should be free to all citizens. Furthermore, to strengthen this view the point on the economic, social and psychology perspective will be provided in the following paragraphs. In Economic Perspective, it Increase the Purchasing Power In the Economic perspective, by giving free basic healthcare, it can cause individual buying power to increase because the disposable income will increase. The cost for people to acquire the health care has caused the increase in spending because they have to spend more money for the things related to health making their consumption to be limited (Kumar, 2014). Their limited consumption can be related to the decrease of their disposable income because they have to set aside a portion of their income for health use especially when there are emergencies and also for the precaution in the future. Moreover, according to Keynesian theory, when the disposable incomes of the individuals become lower, it will affect their consumption to be also lower (Riley, 2015). This theory is based on that the miscellaneous consumption of the people will change based on their disposable income, where in this case the income that individuals can use after deducting amount for their responsibilitie s such as paying tax, insurance and emergency precaution. It can be explained that people will consume less if they are worried for the future when there is emergency situation that occurs and the needs to use of money, this situation caused them the need to save the money for the emergency health use of the future. This is because the amount of disposable income will affect the level of consumption of people. Other than that, the economic activity of a country also will become slower or lower because of the low consumption level (Mandel, 2011). According to both Classical economic theory developed by Karl Marx and Keynesian economic theory that been developed by an English economist, John Maynard Keynes , it also mentioned that the level of consumption of