New Cradles to Graves; Asian Welfare States  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8801 (Sep. 2012), page 21-23.
Topik: Welfare; Regions; Statistical Data; Social Support; Economic Conditions

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Last October Indonesia's parliament passed a law pledging to provide health insurance to all of the country's 240m citizens from January 1st 2014. One government agency will collect premiums and foot the bills, making it the biggest single-payer system in the world, says Hasbullah Thabrany of Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta. If Indonesia tried to universalise the kind of package now enjoyed by civil servants and 9m salaried employees, it would have to collect over 18% of wages to fund the scheme fully, according to calculations by Mitchell Wiener of the World Bank. Passing the law is always easier than paying for it. Indonesia is not the only country in developing Asia rapidly expanding health insurance. In the Philippines, 85% of the population are now members of PhilHealth, the government-owned health insurer. This new Asian interest in social welfare goes far beyond health. Thailand, which achieved universal health care in 2001, introduced pensions for the informal sector in May 2011. Asia's tiger economy countries kept social spending low as a percentage of GDP while their economies grew at unprecedented rates. Asian welfare still looks lean by Western standards.

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