Effects of Universal Health Coverage on Health Care Inequality in Indonesia

The aim of this paper is to see whether the implementation of Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, Indonesia's universal health coverage, had an effect on health care inequality. I do this by examining health care use a year prior to and following the launch ofthe universal health care scheme. Using data obtained from the Socio-Economic National Survey, I calculated concentration indices for age-and-gender standardized outpatient care and inpatient care use and compare the results from both period. The results suggest that while equality of health care use slightly improved following the implementation of universal health care scheme, distributions of both outpatient care and inpatient care use remained concentrated among populations who are better off.