Civil servants get health insurance

Civil servants get health insurance

JAKARTA: The government has earmarked Rp 350 billion funds for
financing government employees' health insurance this year,
health minister Achmad Sujudi says.

Sujudi said on Friday that Rp 100 billion of the funds would
be delivered to 473 state hospitals across the country, while the
remaining Rp 250 billion would be paid to health insurance
company PT Askes.

"The funds will help reduce service fees that government
employees have to pay when they use health insurance from PT
Askes," Sujudi said.

PT Askes director Orie Andari Sutadji, meanwhile, said that
currently a civil servant set aside 2 percent of his monthly
salary for health insurance.

The small insurance premium enables the company to cover 79.17
percent of hospitals claims for health services rendered. --JP