Ministry looking to improve private health insurance sector

Annabelle LeePublished: Nov 20, 2019 11:47 AM | Updated: Nov 20, 2019 1:26 PM

The Health Ministry is looking into issues plaguing the private health insurance sector as part of its efforts to reform the entire healthcare system.

Speaking at the Monash Health Economic Forum today, the ministry’s planning division senior deputy director Dr Rozita Halina Hussein remarked that escalating cost was causing Malaysians to opt-out of having medical insurance...

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