Hello and welcome back to my blog. In today’s post, I want to write about health insurance in my country, what is the advantage and disadvantage of it. First of all, I want to be honest by saying that I rarely get sick. Thus, I do not have that much experience with hospitals, insurance, etc.
Now, let us get into the topic. In Indonesia, we have national health insurance called BPJS (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial Kesehatan) or as being translated into English as Health Social Security Administration. It launched by the government on January 1, 2014, and by 2019, 83,94% of the population, or 221 million people, are registered the National Health Insurance and Healthy Indonesia Card (JKN-KIS) program.
Since its inception, BPJS Health has reaped many pros and cons besides bringing fresh air for public health insurance. Though right now, I am not going to write about the public’s opinion and experiences; on the other hand, I am going to write about my experience with it.
In 2019, I went to the dentist clinic because I had some problem with my teeth. Since the dentist needed further analysis of my teeth, he suggested me to go to the hospital to do a Rontgen. I then went to the hospital to do my Rontgen and later, I found out that I had four wisdom teeth, that were not in the right position and needed to be removed.
Because I was using the BPJS, the administration process was much longer. I had to come very early to get a lower queue number. This is one of the disadvantages of using BPJS since there are a lot of people using it too. After the administration process, I had to wait again until I can see the dentist.
After I did the Rontgen, the dentist suggested me to do a surgery for all of my wisdom teeth since they were already not in the right position anymore. Afterwards, I had to do all the administration thing and also do a couple of Rontgen again. Three weeks later, I did my surgery.
With this, I can say that I am satisfied with the treatments that I got, although the administration queue is very long. Nevertheless, I sometimes hear and read about the unpleasant experience of other people. In my opinion, BPJS is a good alternative for health insurance, especially for poor people. However, I hope that they will do a better change for the administration because I can not imagine if I am in pain and have to wait for a couple of hours only for my name to be called.
To summarize, BPJS is one of the profitable government breakthroughs in the last few years. Though it is still lack of something, I wish that in the next few years the system will get better and it can be beneficial for everyone.
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