Should Governments Fund Free Healthcare Through Taxes or Should Citizens Pay Themselves with Private Health Insurance?

Introduction	Healthcare definition In Indonesia, there are some reasons why healthcare should be funded by the government.
Paragraph 2	First, it’s a country’s duty to protect citizens’ lives. Fact: In the opening of Indonesian law paragraph 4 that states the nation will protect its people.
Paragraph 3	Second, it’d be good to help Indonesian poor people to get healthcare. Fact: accorrding to statistics, there are still 25.95 million Indonesian people that live in poverty.
Paragraph 4	Better health program can be improved in Indonesia, which can improve better living quality of people. Fact: JKN (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional) had the satisfaction rate of 78.6%.
Counter argument	Argument: The money from tax would be better to be used for infrastructures, technologies, public facilities, etc. Counter argument: Improving healthcare and ensuring health for people is more important
Conclusion	Summarizing all arguments and state that healthcare should be funded by government.

Health care is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. It is needed for people as humans who can get sick at some points. It can be obtained by paying or free provided by governments. Because of its importance, people should get healthcare for their own good, even if it’s funded by government if the people can’t get it. In Indonesia, there are some reasons why healthcare should be funded by the government.

First, it’s a country’s duty to protect citizens’ lives. It’s because a nation is made of people. If Indonesia fund healthcare for its people, that means Indonesia does its job well to ensure the good lives of people who pledge their lives and loyalty to the country. And it’s also clearly stated in the opening of Indonesian law 1945 paragraph 4 as such “melindungi segenap bangsa Indonesia dan seluruh tumpah darah Indonesia”, which translates to “protecting the entire Indonesian people” in short, government fulfill its promise and duty to protect Indonesian people. In this case protecting from diseases, illness, etc.

Second, it’d be good to help Indonesian poor people to get healthcare. According to Indonesian statistics, there are 25.95 million Indonesian people still living in poverty. These people surely consist of humans with the needs of healthcare. It’d be unfair for them if they just live with untreated illness only because they don’t have the money to get the proper treatment. It’s totally a good idea to give government funded healthcare, as shown from FEB UI research that Indonesian Health Card program helped 1.16 million poor people to be healthy again.

Third, better health program can be improved in Indonesia, which can improve better living quality of people. There are various healthcare program conductors in Indonesia that have shown good result of their jobs. For example, JKN (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional) had the satisfaction rate of 78.6%. This tells us that good healthcare satisfy Indonesian people. And that better health program can be achieved in such a clear way.

People may think that money from tax would be better to be used for infrastructures, technologies, public facilities, etc. They would think those are the important things for the government to spend money on to be a better nation. But it’s wrong cause those things aren’t human basic needs that the government should focus on. Instead, improving healthcare and ensuring health for people is more important cause those people, Indonesian people are the ones who run the country. Workers, farmers, teachers, etc are the ones who make this country keeps existing and well. Surely they should be the priority for the government to care about.

In conclusion, healthcare should be funded by the government cause there are some factors that agree with it. Being the country’s duty, helping Indonesian poor people, and improving better health program are the reasons why the Indonesian government should fund healthcare.