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The new insurance "base plan" under the Reset strategy is meant to widen access and complement the universal coverage provided by the government, says Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.


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00:00Well, before I start, maybe it's important for us to remember why we are on this journey at this point of time.
00:07And remind ourselves that over the last few years, we have seen a very clear and worrying trend.
00:14Medical claim inflation is rising, probably at a pace far above general inflation.
00:21While for many countries of the world, they are seeing this, but here the impact is really real.
00:27So, higher claims means higher cost, inadvertently forcing premiums for families and employers to go up.
00:35And as a consequence, we are also seeing some people surrendering back their insurance and then falling off cover.
00:42As the government is concerned, because what we don't want is that if this trend continues unchecked,
00:49fewer individuals can afford protection than they do today.
00:52We cannot accept the scenario where choice slips out of the reach and becomes a luxury for a very few.
01:00Our goal, however, is not just to arrest this decline in excess, but ultimately to focus about expanding excess.
01:11We want to make private healthcare coverage accessible to more individuals than we have today.
01:17It is not about forcing people to go to private sector, private healthcare.
01:21It is actually building a mechanism where people have choice and those who want will be given the choice that they can actually access it
01:31rather than only depend on what we have in the public healthcare system.
01:36Thus, this is important that when we look at it, we have to look at it from a holistic point of view
01:42that addresses all the fundamental building blocks of healthcare and not just tackle the insurance issue by itself.
01:51This is a core philosophy of the RESET program.
01:56We cannot address inflation by looking at insurance costs in isolation.
02:02We must elevate the whole ecosystem of healthcare.
02:06Our strategy is to focus on the fundamental building blocks, establishing a sustainable baseline for coverage,
02:15empowering consumers with decision-making tools so they know what they're doing,
02:20catalyzing investments by reducing barriers of entry,
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