Achieving Universal Coverage; Lessons From The Experience of Other Countries for National Health Insurance Implementation in Indonesia

Ndonesia is not the only country that will lead to universal coverage. Several countries took an initiative to develop social security, through Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to achieve health insurance and welfare for all residents. Even, some countries have already reached universal health coverage since a few y ears ago. The purpose of this paper is to assess the achievement of universal coverage of th e health insurance implementation in several countries. In general, some countries require considerable time to achieve universal coverage. Mechanisms and stages th at need attention is on the univeral registration aspects that cover the entire population, progressive and continuous funding sources, comprehensive benefits package, the expansion of gradual coverage for diseases that can cause catastrophic expen diture , increas ing capacity and mobilizing support ing resource . National Health Insurance policy in some countries can improve access to care, utilization and quality of quality health services to all citizens . Indonesia is expected to learn from the experience o f other countries to achieve UHC, so that the projection of the entire population of Indonesia to have health insurance in 2019 will be reached soon.