Does Indonesian National Health Insurance serve a potential for improving health equity in favour of workers in informal economy?

Dwintha Maya Kartika

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Abstract: This study examines whether Indonesian national health insurance system promotes health equity in favour of informal economy workers. It first lays out the theoretical justification on the need of social protection, particularly health protection for informal workers. The paper argues that the absence of health protection for vulnerable informal workers in Indonesia has reinforced health inequity between formal and informal workers, thus provides a justification on extending health protection to this segment. It then boils down its analysis on existing BPJS Health scheme, a government-run national health insurance, and to what extent this scheme serves the needs of informal workers in Indonesia. The finding suggests that several factors (contributory premium, access to healthcare services and politicisation of national healthcare) are responsible for adversely incorporating informal workers; hence fail to promote health equity in favour of vulnerable workers in informal economy.

Keywords: National Health Insurance; Informal Economy; Universal Health Coverage; Indonesia; Informal workers; Health financing; Social Security; Social Protection; WHO; ILO; BPJS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 I1 I13 I14 I15 I18 J46 O17 O29 Y40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-hea, nep-ias, nep-iue, nep-mac and nep-sea
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