Universal Health Care? (Un)documented Migrants in Southeast Asia

CHAN Chee Khoon In recent years, WHO Member States have been urged to speed up reforms to ensure that all persons can have timely access to quality health services without falling into financial hardship.1 In the Southeast Asian region, citizens of Malaysia and Singapore have long benefited from widely accessible tax-funded or subsidized government healthcare, and Brunei nationals (who do not pay personal income taxes) enjoy wide-ranging health and social…