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Price-fixing of Private Healthcare Fees is:
BAD for Patients
BAD for Doctors
BAD for Malaysia!
If you disagree with the proposed government price-fixing scheme, JOIN US and sign this petition! Here is the information.
The Ministry of Health will soon table a Scale of Fees for all private medical and dental healthcare delivered in Malaysia. This price-fixing scheme will be incorporated in the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act.
This Scale of Fees is not a GUIDE but a legal document, which will be binding once the amendment to the Act is approved.
The MMA and MDA have a long standing tradition of cooperation and professional collaboration with the Government, which has resulted in vast improvements in the delivery of healthcare in Malaysia. This effort to blindly rush toward Government controlled mandatory price-fixing, without considering the long term, far-reaching implications, threatens this proud tradition with extinction. We have been ordered to produce a scale of fees, in some cases, in just two weeks. This has prevented the medical professionals of Malaysia from properly discussing the long-term effects of this proposal with each other.
We, the private Medical and Dental professionals of Malaysia, have serious concerns and reservations that, if passed, this legislation will most certainly:
1. Reduce the availability of Private Medical Care. Price-fixing ALWAYS reduces supply. We are already facing a severe shortage.
2. Reduce or eliminate competition, innovation, and advancement.
3. Will discourage medical and dental professionals from seeking further training to upgrade their skills, as all practitioners will be subjected to the same price scheme, regardless of additional training or experience.
4. Fixed price structures will further discourage Malaysians who have trained overseas to return to Malaysia to practice. This will worsen the already severe 'brain drain' scenario.
5. The success of Medical and Dental Tourism in Malaysia requires the latest equipment and advancements to be competitive with other countries such as Thailand. Malaysia will fall even further behind in this area.
PLEASE JOIN US! Send a unified voice to the Ministry of Health. SIGN THE PETITION!
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October 28, 2010
The Ministry of Health needs to stop pretending that this backroom scheme has our support. The overwhelming momentum building here proves that they cannot force this catastrophic price-fixing down our throats without a fight.
6 Comments
TOTAL MADNESS. If they cap fees everyone will just wait longer and get worse care. STOP THIS NOW.
bad move for malaysia. doctors will just leave to work somewhere else. keep fees private.
This is going to kill the quality of care for everyone. doctors deserve to be paid fairly for their hard work.
govt needs to stay out of our private business. costs of running a clinic are already high enough without them sticking their nose in.
Ridiculous idea. prices should be set by the market not some bureaucrat who has never run a practice in their life.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Price-fixing of Private Healthcare Fees is:
BAD for Patients
BAD for Doctors
BAD for Malaysia!
If you disagree with the proposed government price-fixing scheme, JOIN US and sign this petition! Here is the information.
The Ministry of Health will soon table a Scale of Fees for all private medical and dental healthcare delivered in Malaysia. This price-fixing scheme will be incorporated in the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act.
This Scale of Fees is not a GUIDE but a legal document, which will be binding once the amendment to the Act is approved.
The MMA and MDA have a long standing tradition of cooperation and professional collaboration with the Government, which has resulted in vast improvements in the delivery of healthcare in Malaysia. This effort to blindly rush toward Government controlled mandatory price-fixing, without considering the long term, far-reaching implications, threatens this proud tradition with extinction. We have been ordered to produce a scale of fees, in some cases, in just two weeks. This has prevented the medical professionals of Malaysia from properly discussing the long-term effects of this proposal with each other.
We, the private Medical and Dental professionals of Malaysia, have serious concerns and reservations that, if passed, this legislation will most certainly:
1. Reduce the availability of Private Medical Care. Price-fixing ALWAYS reduces supply. We are already facing a severe shortage.
2. Reduce or eliminate competition, innovation, and advancement.
3. Will discourage medical and dental professionals from seeking further training to upgrade their skills, as all practitioners will be subjected to the same price scheme, regardless of additional training or experience.
4. Fixed price structures will further discourage Malaysians who have trained overseas to return to Malaysia to practice. This will worsen the already severe 'brain drain' scenario.
5. The success of Medical and Dental Tourism in Malaysia requires the latest equipment and advancements to be competitive with other countries such as Thailand. Malaysia will fall even further behind in this area.
PLEASE JOIN US! Send a unified voice to the Ministry of Health. SIGN THE PETITION!
Updates
October 28, 2010
The Ministry of Health needs to stop pretending that this backroom scheme has our support. The overwhelming momentum building here proves that they cannot force this catastrophic price-fixing down our throats without a fight.
6 Comments
leave the doctors alone. they studied for years to do what they do.
TOTAL MADNESS. If they cap fees everyone will just wait longer and get worse care. STOP THIS NOW.
bad move for malaysia. doctors will just leave to work somewhere else. keep fees private.
This is going to kill the quality of care for everyone. doctors deserve to be paid fairly for their hard work.
govt needs to stay out of our private business. costs of running a clinic are already high enough without them sticking their nose in.
Ridiculous idea. prices should be set by the market not some bureaucrat who has never run a practice in their life.
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leave the doctors alone. they studied for years to do what they do.