The cost of medical treatment in Malaysia is projected to jump 16% next year, driven by a brain drain of healthcare professionals and increasing speciality drug prices, according to MBSB Research.

In its monthly sector report, the firm highlighted the exodus of local doctors, nurses, and specialists to higher-paying overseas markets as a key driver of rising costs.

"This labour shortage directly increases the cost of hiring and retaining talent in the private healthcare sector," it said, as reported by Berita Harian.

The report noted that globally, labour costs often account for more than half of hospital operating expenses.

Private hospital operators are now offering higher salaries to retain specialists who had previously left the public sector
Between 2020 and 2024, 440 professional staff from the Health Ministry (MOH) moved abroad, including five medical specialists, 54 medical officers, and 381 nurses, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zulkefly Ahmad told Parliament in September.

Rising prices of speciality drugs are another contributor to medical inflation.

High-value medicines for non-communicable diseases, including popular GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity, have been affected by expensive Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are facing margin pressures as a result.

The integration of new medical technology is also pushing hospital operating costs higher.

Major private hospitals, such as those under IHH Healthcare Bhd, could face additional cost pressures from both labour shortages and rising drug prices.

The government has said it will implement structural reforms to manage medical cost inflation and improve healthcare spending transparency.

Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan recently outlined the government's plans to roll out a basic 'Medical & Health Insurance/Takaful (MHIT)' product by the end of next year.

This will be designed to provide Malaysians with affordable protection against hospitalisation and select outpatient care, improve cost transparency and address structural pressures in the healthcare system.

https://says.com/my/news/medical-costs-in-m...sCuBg5WKmHWWELA

Gomen must subsidi now.

janji KKM RM1

Government hospital lah

News talking about Insurance.

Now you know why insurance companies are repricing?

Rokek say inflation still low only 1.2%

and yet ppl who pays rm1 still acts like their mother father punya hospital.

No such things, remember how the Covid strike gomen can give free jabs.

So Kkm 1rm now becomes Kkm 1.16rm?

Time to promote natural life.

Reduce medical intervention, when it's time it's time.

This post has been edited by iGamer: Nov 13 2025, 03:37 PM

penipu scammer,

without insurance, charge RM1k
with insurance, charge to insurance RM2k

Doctor salary 100k a month too low here, need to earn higher overseas

Duh, that's if a worldwide pandemic and government used funds to buy the vaccines lah

Pandemics don't happen every day

Stop sugar subsidy. Reduce tangkap basah budget.. Improve our gomen medical staff salaries

kekwa one alcohol wipe 20sen hospital charge RM2.
rising cost konon

Okay.

My med card....
Direct debit from CC...
My CC expiry many montj and replacement card also mossing never receive...
So never activate the card....
Somehow the insurance company still manage to deduct from the CC....

Medical inflation 10 times general infpation

Fuel by greed of benovelent doctors, the guardian angel of our life

That is magic

medcard premium hike again next year
need Luigi msia version

Just go to government hospital, so much cheaper and actually the quality not bad lah. Even semi private like PPUM also quite good

If not how insurance companies justify to charge higher premiums? Both parties are partners-in-crime

Diu private hospitals

do you know how well they r dong now?

Beacon and TMC expanded to new wings.

Gleneagles already got new wing
SJMC got new wing
Sunway expanding fast into many branches

All these farkin insurance hike in premiums are funding their expansions

all excuses man.

their nurses are overworked, just see the glassdoor reviews, money is going into the blady hospital pockets.

You think insurance companies will make extraordinary profits due to medical inflation?

Given choice I would rather pay my current insurance premium to gov hospital than blood sucker companies

People pay for private hospitals because they want faster service

If you are willing to wait, then go government hospital

damn, this time if insurance premium price hike again i won't top up already

lesser payout but i will choose those not-so premium hospital or semi-private jer - touch wood

Need to have AI doctor to cut cost.

Next year raise to RM1.20.

This post has been edited by RGRaj: Nov 13 2025, 05:00 PM

1.20 is still damn cheap lah

Even increase to RM10 is still reasonable

Just let pharmacy able to diagnose n dispense antibiotic as 1st layer then can reduce 75% ad..

Cannot cure then baru consult

This post has been edited by Boomwick: Nov 13 2025, 05:01 PM

money for doctor meds, no.
money for sugar, yes.
need sugar tax 100%

AI Overview
In 2025, the Malaysian government is providing an ongoing
subsidy (incentive payment) of RM1.00 per kilogram of raw and refined sugar to manufacturers to help cover production costs while maintaining a controlled retail price. This translates to an estimated RM500 million to RM600 million yearly in total government expenditure.
Key details of the sugar subsidy in 2025:

Subsidy Amount: RM1.00 per kg for coarse and refined sugar.
Total Annual Cost: Approximately RM500 million to RM600 million.

This post has been edited by Phoenix_KL: Nov 13 2025, 05:06 PM

Rokek say inflation by previous government is 30% annually, but during their time inflation skyrocketed worse figuratively.

Nvm, not just blame previous government for rokek screw ups.

This post has been edited by MishimaZ: Nov 13 2025, 05:12 PM

You do know the difference between general inflation and medical inflation, right?

rm1 fee not sustainable in long run especially in 21st century. rm5-10 are more reasonable in this climate

What I mean is funding gov to make it faster

I'd say RM 10-20 is more reasonable. Look at those ppl buying a meal outside pun dah RM10

Reallocate the sports budget, especially soccer, to the hospital. don't wait until Covid-21; only then will you appreciate your medical professionals.

SEMUA SALAH BIG PHARMA DAN BIG INSURANS

There isn't much budget in football to begin with and you call football soccer.

What's wrong with calling football soccer? The ball we kick around, the term originated from England, the word "soccer". If you say Football in America, it means a totally differnt game.

If taking budget of soccer isn't enough, just delete the whole ministry; no one is going to notice.

Shortage? LOL... I hope those being held back by KKM contracts swarm this farker house and show him if Malaysia is lacking healthcare workforce

Those who saying doctor demanding, tak suka then keluar, karma coming to bite you

medical insurance hike because doctors charge anything to you... they charge anything to you because you are covered by insurance. medical insurance needs to buy new car so they need to charge you increased premium..

Semua harga naik!

Dulu cakap siapa turun harga turun?

Sekarang dia turun, harga akan turun. kek

Gov should zoom in hard on insurance. Mostly are now practicing scam like behavior.

How is it scam? Insurance companies are already regulated by BNM lah. Private hospitals on the other hand are totally beyond government control

Boycott all private hospital and doctor.
I m now start using chatgpt for health consultation.

So that's why they delay casemix implementation in KKM to 2027 and concentrate on forcing it into private hospital in 2026 to do casemix and have them integrate MHIT government insurance to use a fixed DRG-based payment, subsidized by BNM with additional patient's own KWSP eligible for M40 and below. this is going for more transparency, and standardize the price, to curb the private medical institution inflation.

well its not a scam, but its a vicious cycle of inflation
the higher the medical cost, the higher the insurance premium, the higher the demand, the higher the medical cost again and so on, lead to further escalation

Higher premium leads to higher demand? LOL

Insurance companies actually prefer not increasing price too much because it will lead to people dropping their policies. It's actually happening today.

When they underwrite policies, they already take into consideration the profits for the future. It's stable and consistent profits. When medical inflation happened, it cause all their plans to go haywire. Their projected profits will shrink and it might even lead to losses. That's why repricing happens.

However, they cannot don't reprice as it will hit them worse. Instead, they just have to bear with people cancelling their policies.

higher demand in the insurance for people recognizing the risk of being uninsured
and therefore insurance company rise the price even more seeing that they can
and therefore private hospital rise the price even more seeing that they can
and therefore, more people recognizing the risk of being uninsured
and that create the positive feedback loop

your doctors are mine soon.

Singapore confirms interest in recruiting Malaysian doctors
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2025/11/...n-doctors-watch

sometimes medical intervention actually increase suffering and shortens lifespan

Meaning if you forex rate is bad, then it is only good for exporters but bad for everyone else

Balls kena check mate liou

Higher demand for insurance does not mean higher cost due to limited goods being chased by high demands. Insurance does not have goods. Insurance is shared risk model not goods production model.

harap insurance premium kito pon naik to keep up with costs.. so we can maintain quality serbice...

Do you think regulated by BNM ia a big deal 🤦‍♀️ most of the time BNM is under the direction now of the useless BMX who only acts when his position is being threatened by the ppl sentiments

Otherwise is business as usual for insurance companies who just playing along the rules to appease the govt

Insurance should be regulated by a bipartisan parties instead

Gomen fail raykat again

meanwhile

everyday make alot of noise , Ringgit very strong

...bla bla bla...

so many suggestion how to keep tabs on medical costs in a aging society, but gomen very strongly don't want to listen

real bunch of donkeys.

on the other hand

MBSB Research says strong stock buy for healthcare because revenue projected to go up up up . Tqvm , please buy more and give us sales service income.

Next few days, EPF projected to go up because investment in healthcare companies is giving good returns.

Then next few days, some research body is going to say consumer spending go up up up , so please buy more stock

Then next few weeks, some research body is going to say EPF unsustainable due to inflation, so they should constrain returns to payers.

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in summary, raykat kena bungkus by all party, esp. pro-big business gomen.

This post has been edited by Redhunt: Nov 28 2025, 03:32 PM

unsubsidized and add tax to sugar
increase tax for cigarrete
KKM rm1 can last longer..
but gov more sibuk spend millions launch app..

LOL, you go see other countries lah

Compared to other countries, we can be considered as heavily regulated

Luckily you still covered

My insurance premiums also getting more expensive

They are not forcing us to buy insurance. K1M kan ada

Can force buy insurance?

CNnot. If you don't buy. If everyone don't buy see the insurance price will increase or not

There won't be a scenario where no one don't buy insurance. However, if there are less people buying, the premium will also be even higher as insurance is a pool to spread risk. If the Malaysian market become not attractive, the big foreign insurers will withdraw from our market. What do you think will happen?

Don't buy. End of story.

The private hospital mafia bermaharaja reja because of consumers. Consumers need to be smart all of use we taught in school about demand n supply.

Bnm set rule = max 50% cover only with min customer pay rm 1000

Hospital regulated price range for types of medicine, test and treatment

Can do ?

Not regulated in the 1st place 🤦‍♀️ but complied to until got loophole which now they take advantage

The problem is also in school system 🤦‍♀️ do you think schools teach students to think and not comply in the 1st place


Can do but no political willpower in the 1st place 🤦‍♀️ otherwise why do you BMX dragging its feet’s on this matter

That's not how the world work lah. Are you so naive?

Go read why insurance industry are important to a country and how their existence contribute to a country. Even a country like China has insurance companies.

When you're sick, you cannot don't go see doc. The demand will always be there for private hospitals like insurance. Even if people don't go, where do they think they can go? Government hospitals? Our government hospitals are already running at maximum capacity.

I thought our currency strengthening....

Pure greed.

but if accident break leg break hand how? free market healthcare countries can easily cost tens thousands to fix. just do like medieval time, let it heal crooked?

eventually our gomen healthcare system will also move to a mandatory insurance paid in scheme like singapore and germany, maybe even UK like NHS. that time everyone has to pay into an insurance pool.

This post has been edited by diffyhelman2: Nov 28 2025, 07:31 PM

LoL... scamsurance and scampital go hand in hand to rip consumers

do you think private hospitals are going to accept this laying down doing nothing? if for example a certain diagnosis drg weight translated into for example rm4200, no matter how much wastage of medication and/or medical supplies, the same diagnosis will carry the same drg weight and will be used in this fixed drg payment system that kkm impose on them next year. its great for m40 who wants private hospital care, but its probably going to be bad for private hospital industry

doctor shortage?
but many C nangis tak dapat masuk University especially hot courses like doctor

why ah

ayam poorfag wait die only

Dr shortage is for experienced specialist and in rural states like east Malaysia. GP drs berlambak. Private hospitals are almost all specialist

so the short of doctor is meant for private or gov?

Reading the article, most of the problem in big state gov hospital are shortage of nurses.