IMPLICATIONS OF THE HEALTH OMNIBUSLAW LAW FOR THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL

Abstract

The Health Omnibuslaw Bill was passed into law through a plenary meeting on July 11 2023 which sparked polemics among the public because the government was deemed to be less transparent and too hasty in passing the bill. This article will examine the implications of the Health Omnibus Law for the welfare of society and medical personnel. The research method used is the normative legal method. Meanwhile, the approaches are a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. The research results show that the impacts that will occur on the community and also medical personnel are: first, eliminating mandatory spending will be a burden on the community. Second, there is a greater opportunity for foreign medical personnel to practice, which results in a decline in Indonesian medical personnel. This regulation is considered to liberalize the workforce in the health industry. Apart from the negative impacts, there are also positive impacts, including: medicines and medical devices have the potential to be cheaper, easier access to public health by increasing the number of doctors, and access to information systems that are fragmented to become integrated.