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According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index as of February 2014, even with the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that practically all Americans have health insurance, 15.9 percent of Americans lack coverage, Axis Capital, a group of companies with branch offices in Bermuda, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Singapore and the United States and has been also servicing SE countries such as KL Malaysia, Bangkok Thailand, Jakarta Indonesia and many more, Imagine being a person with not just one but then two health plans, may sometimes sound like a fraud. This double coverage can take place in many ways: * An adult child may be covered under a parent's plan, which must be permissible until age 26, and likewise has a job with workplace advantages.  * An employee may take his or her company's health plan and likewise be enrolled under a spouse's plan at the spouse's workplace. * Simply, a scam! Possessing two health plans doesn't mean you get reimbursed twofold instead of one. Warning! There are a few disadvantages to what, on the surface, appears like health insurance heaven: * Double coverage frequently means you're paying for redundant coverage. * You need to make your claim with your "primary" plan first. The additional plan can pick up the tab for whatsoever not covered, but it won't pay something heading the primary plan's deductible.  * If both plans have deductibles, you'll have to fee both before coverage kicks in. 

Local governments initially started carrying health insurance back in 2003 when Megawati Soekarnoputri’s government presented the Health Service Insurance for Poor Families program, or JPK-Gakin. The notion was for district managements to apply their personal community health insurance schemes in line with local requirements. Nevertheless, limited programs ever actually got off the ground before Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s new government presented a bill that laid the foundation for a nation-wide program and made JPK-Gakin redundant, Law no. 40/2004 on a National Social Security System (SJSN). Simultaneously, Yudhoyono’s government announced a program to run free, however basic, healthcare to the poor - Askeskin (health insurance for the poor), which was substituted in 2008 by Jamkesmas (community health insurance). Certain regional administrations put up a round. In 2005, East Java’s government led a test at the Constitutional Court demanding that SJSN gave the central government a monopoly on social service provision and broke the constitution and Law no. 32/2004 on Regional Governance. The court approved that SJSN did not stop local governments from emerging their own social security programs, as well as for healthcare. Ever since, the quantity of local health insurance programs has increased year on year. One of the groundbreaking systems was Jaminan Kesehatan Jembrana (JKJ) presented in 2003 by Gede Winasa, the head of Jembrana district in Bali. According to this scheme, all members of JKJ, may they be poor or non-poor get free pri