Report from Tribunnews.com Journalist, Vincentius Jyestha
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the increase in health costs is not always directly proportional to the improvement of health services.
Budi began to touch on this issue when discussing the cost of public health which always increases from year to year.
“In the last 20 years, almost all of the growth in health costs has been greater than the economic costs,” said Budi, in a working meeting with Commission IX of the Indonesian Parliament, Wednesday (17/3/2021).
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“The increase in the cost of health services per capita is not necessarily effective in improving health services. This is reflected in the average life expectancy of the people,” he added.
Budi then compared life expectancy with per capita health costs in several countries.
For example in the United States, the per capita public health cost is US $ 12 thousand with a life expectancy of 79 years.
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Meanwhile in Japan with health costs less or about US $ 5 thousand, the life expectancy is higher than United States of America that is, reaching 84 years.
So that Budi also draws the conclusion that the money issued by Uncle Sam’s country has not been effective in increasing the life expectancy of its people.
“Another funnier data is comparing with Cuba. This per capita health cost is below US $ 5 thousand per year, but its life expectancy is the same as America’s which is US $ 12 thousand per year, which is 79 years,” he said.
Therefore, Budi said there needed to be a certain way to increase people’s life expectancy.
One of them is by increasing the productivity and effectiveness standards of health services.
“It means not treating the sick, but building healthy people. That is the name Ministry of Health, and the health industry, not the ministry of pain, “he said.
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