INDONESIA'S HEALTH FINANCING POLICY AN EFFORT TO REALIZE UHC

Abstract

The health financing system created by one country aims to improve its health status and relieve the burden of individual suffering and reduce the burden on the state. To realize the goal is not easy and many problems. The state of the budget, corruption, inconsistency between regulations and the system, the wrong choice in realizing health financing will certainly harm public health services and the realization of the UHC concept. The focus of this research is how the health financing policy in realizing UHC.
Methods: This study uses a normative and sociological juridical approach to study the condition of an object naturally through regulatory studies and mutually supportive empirical facts. This finding found that the health financing policy still had many obstacles, including the lack of funds for health services and drug standards. Many regulatory policies have not regulated an adequate service system.
Conclusion: This study recommends that the integration of regulations and an effective and efficient financing system can create an equitable distribution of health services to realize UHC.
Keywords: Policy, Health financing, Universal Health Coverage