When Illness Lasts A Lifetime: Rethinking How Malaysia Finances Chronic Care — Dr K. Thiruchelvam
Malaysia must shift its health care financing model from short-term hospitalisation coverage to sustainable, shared-responsibility frameworks that support long-term chronic care.
How should we finance health care for people whose illnesses do not end when they leave the hospital? This is an increasingly important question for Malaysia as more people live with chronic and lifelong conditions requiring continuing treatment, monitoring and support.
For many patients, health care is not a single episode. It involves regular specialist consultations, medicines, diagnostic tests, monitoring, rehabilitation and, in some cases, expensive treatments that continue for years.
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