Medically Speaking

I am a member of my department medical board. Not an important one but still I am part of it. Every meet brings up new cases of medical claims numbers that is mind boggling. Imagine claims up to RM90, 000! That is more than what I make in a year.

Just to think that the government had to bear all this expense for the benefit of the people is incredible. Who says Malaysia is not a welfare country. If it we are to look at a certain angle, we really mimicked UK. But different from

UK we are afraid of our government. Strange isn’t it? Like it was said in the movie ‘V for Vendetta’, “The government should be afraid of its people not the people afraid of their government.” I mean really, if we are to say anything that is clearly wrong, it is against the interest of Malays, do we do anything? We don’t have the guts to unite and stood against the government. We just let them roll us over.

Even in the virtual space, we reserve our comments on the government’s policies. Why can’t we voice it out? Because we are all civil servants? We are employed by the government with that all of our freedom of expression is pulled away beneath us? What kind of nation we are turning into?

Back to the topic, medical expenses are rising these days. Watching all the figures rising, I could conclude that sooner or later that the government will have to draw the line on giving out free medication. Slowly, the top decision makers are doing just that. They did it slowly with out the mass knowing about it. All the small stuff is beginning to be denied of subsidy. Soon anything that is related to major surgery will not be under the responsibility of the government. Who knows? If there is still some, it would be under certain limits or a certain percentage. No more free health care. Are we Malaysian are prepare for such event?

It is a good thing that even thought you are a civil servant you buy yourselves an insurance policy. Ever since I had seen all of these expenses that I decided that I need an insurance policy to cover me in times of in need. Because you don’t know that someday the government may decide that they didn’t want to take on your medical tab any more. When that happens, I’m already covered.

It’s not the case of feeling safe, it’s the case of having an assurance that I would be a burden to anyone else, if anything do happened to me.