Dalam belanjawan 2018 juga ada dinyatakan:
Sejumlah RM 50 juta diperuntukkan kepada Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme untuk memperkasa sektor kesihatan.
Perkara ini sebenarnya sudah lama disebut-sebut.
Malah hal ini telah pun dinyatakan oleh Menteri Kesihatan Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam pada bulan Mei 2017 lagi.
- The structure of the insurance scheme had been approved by the Cabinet and currently 40 per cent completed.
- It will be operated by non-profit organisations under the ministry purview.
Sumber: Voluntary health insurance scheme will be introduced next year
Manakala dalam perkembangan lain pula, pada 30 Oktober 2017, Gabenor Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) menyatakan:
- Current insurance products are too complex and unaffordable to many Malaysians.
- From the perspective of the population that remain underserved, the existing business models are essentially broken. The market served narrow segment.
- If we eliminate double-counting, only 35% of adults have some form of coverage.
Disebabkan itu, beliau menyatakan lagi dalam Malaysian Insurance Summit 2017, Perlindungan Tenang akan dilancarkan:
- Perlindungan Tenang is intended to reach 8 million working-age Malaysians and over 700,000 micro enterprises that currently need insurance and takaful protection against key risks
- By 2020, he hoped that about 75% of the population would have some sort of insurance coverage.
Sumber: BNM to introduce affordable insurance scheme next month