BPJS Kesehatan Untuk Siapa? Clarifikasi Pernyataan Menkes Budi

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (ANTARA/Hreeloita Dharma Shanti)

YOGYAKARTA - In recent times there has been a lot of discussion about the Health Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS). The conversation occurred after Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, said that so far BPJS Kesehatan had borne the burden of treating the rich.

Minister of Health Budi said rich people or conglomerates should not enjoy health services and so that it does not burden BPJS Health's finances. However, Budi said it did not violate the rules completely considering that BPJS Health services do not cover all economic classes.

Furthermore, the Minister of Health said it was very easy to detect BPJS Kesehatan participants from the rich. The profile or background of BPJS participants can be known through the ID card NIK, then they can trace electricity bill data to credit cards.

Minister of Health Budi's statement drew responses from many parties, from ordinary people to members of the DPR.

Minister of Health Budi's remarks regarding the rich people who use BPJS Kesehatan received a lot of comments from netizens. Budi's statement was widely commented on by netizens on Twitter. A number of Twitter accounts also asked again about the BPJS premium policy, "if it's not allowed for the rich, why is BPJS required for everyone?".

"In the past, all of them had to have bpjs Trs, now they talk about it and it's a burden?? So you have to use an independent auditor (not the government), "wrote the account @BudianaPangestu.

"The name insurance wants to be rich or poor if he does pay, it's his right. If the rich can't use Bpjs, fix the procedure from the start," wrote the account @ismiakhilmi.

Rahmad Handoyo, a member of Commission IX of the DPR from the PDI-P faction, said that BPJS Health is provided to serve all citizens without exception. Rahmad explained that there are no word and poor issues that need to be evaluated. The BPJS program must be implemented according to the mandate of the constitution of the applicable law.

Rahmad said that so far the problem of providing BPJS was caused by the wrong Contribution Assistance Recipients (PBI). According to him, many middle and upper class people have PBI status. He argues that in order to overcome this problem, it is necessary to do a better PBI data input process. Prohibiting the rich from getting BPJS is not a solution," said Rahmad.

Timboel Siregar, Coordinator of BPJS Watch, said that the Minister of Health should encourage the rich to join BPJS participants. Based on the data, there are still a total of 12.67 percent of the people who have not registered with the National Health Insurance (JKN).

Timboel mengatakan selama ini banyak orang-orang kaya yang belum bergotong-royong di JKN. Orang-orang kaya banyak yang menggunakan asuransi kesehatan swasta. Ia menilai seharusnya Menkes mengajak orang kaya untuk segera mendaftar di JKN, bagi yang belum tergabung dalam program tersebut.

Furthermore, Timboel reminded the government not to differentiate health service rights to the public. Timboel also said that a scavenger and a general would have the same health rights when they joined JKN.

Minister of Health Budi made a clarification on his statement regarding the needs of the rich to get BPJS Health. He said BPJS must be obtained by all levels of society, both middle to lower and middle to upper class.

The Minister of Health emphasized that the implementation of BPJS should be carried out better to avoid mistakes. He said BPJS must include services for 270 million Indonesians regardless of background.

Furthermore, he said the BPJS Health service is currently too wide. This condition makes the institution unsustainable because it has to pay too high claims. He stated that the concept of good social insurance must provide services to the entire community while still applying certain standards.

Furthermore, Minister of Health Budi plans to add services in BPJS Kesehatan will be borne by the rich. Services covered include non-generic drugs.

That's an explanation from BPJS Kesehatan for whom. The statement about the rich who should not have received BPJS has been clarified again by the Minister of Health Budi. He stated that BPJS Kesehatan must serve all the community and program implementation must be improved.

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