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Abstract. Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial /National Social Security Agency (BPJS) is a public agency
established to implement the social security program. It consists of the BPJS for Health and the BPJS for
Manpower. The BPJS for Health is expected to commence on 1 January 2014. The health insurance prepared
through BPJS is in the form health protection for participants to get health care benefits and protection to meet
the basic needs of health care. It is provided to every person who has paid fees or whose contributions are paid
by the government. This study is performed to assess the willingness of Indonesian to participate in a BPJS
health. A cross-sectional study was performed between April and May 2014 with 246 randomly selected
respondents using the two-stage cluster sampling method. The respondents were asked the person’s willingness
to pay for the described BPJS plan and then assessed using the contingent valuation method in an ex-ante
bidding game approach until the maximum amount they would be willing to pay to obtain such a service was
agreed upon. In the conclusion, our study findings suggest that slightly most of the participants (36.6%)
preferred to pay the premium rate at 25,500 IDR. This study also found that the average monthly amount of the
Indonesian people to join BPJS for Health program were willing to pay was estimated to be 77,437.50 IDR for
group 1 participants, 47,946.43 IDR for the group 2 participants and 30,450 IDR for the group 3 participants for
BPJS for Health program. Based on the likelihood ratio test, the result shown that all the hypothesized factors
simultaneously and significantly affected the willingness of Indonesian to pay the premium rate of BPJS for
health program. Those who have attained higher education and have occupation would be more likely to join
BPJS for Health program.
Keywords: Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial /National Social Security Agencies (BPJS); Willingness
to Pay, Contingent Valuation Method; Services Promised
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who meet the criteria as wage workers. Non-wage workers This study’s primary objective was to explore the
are people who work outside employment relations or willingness of Indonesian to pay the premium rate of BPJS
independent workers. Nonworkers are people who don’t for Health program and the factors that affect their
work, but are able to pay health insurance tuition. Including willingness to pay (WTP).
in this group are investors, employers, pension recipients,
veterans, and pioneers of independence) or other non- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
workers who can meet the criteria as wage workers. The
membership of Health BPJS for all Indonesian citizens is 2.1 Willingness to Pay
compulsory even if they already have other health
insurance. According to the agreement and decisions of the WTP would be individuals willing to pay for a particular
Indonesian government for wage worker participants and product or good. In Health insurance case, WTP is the
non-wage worker ones who have family members more amount of money an individual is willing to pay as a
than five persons, including the participants themselves, the premium (Wright et al., 2009).
rate of health insurance’s tuition or the amount of money
that must be paid regularly by participants, employers, 2.1 Contingent Valuation Method
and/or the government for the health insurance’s program
can be described as follows: Establishing a price for a product is not always as
1. 25,500 IDR per person per month, for participants who straight forward as finding the intersection point of the
wish to have healthcare treatment in class III supply and demand curves as taught in Microeconomics
2. 42,500 IDR per person per month, for participants who 101. One may run into particular difficulties when
wish to have healthcare treatment in class II attempting to price a product which is a public or non-
3. 59,500 IDR per person per month, for participants who market good. Numerous methods have attempted to solve
wish to have healthcare treatment in class I this problem, e.g. hedonic pricing, cost-benefit analysis,
The rate of health insurance’s tuition or the amount of travel cost and cost-effectiveness to name a few (Asfaw and
money that must be paid regularly by participants is an von Braun, 2005). Much of the current WTP literature uses
important thing that influenced the success of the BPJS CV method which elicits directly what individuals would be
program. One of the causes of the country budget willing to pay for a particular product or good (Wright et al.,
increasing for health insurance programs each year is the 2009). Most researchers, however, agree that if prevailed
lack of people participating in paying the premium for preferences or market situations cannot be directly observed
health insurance programs (Handayani, 2013). or if the item under consideration is not traded in a real
People participations in paying the premium rates market, CV methods are the best alternative to assess the
depend on their willingness to pay (WTP). WTP amount value of public or non-traded goods and services. It is
always affected by some factors. Research in Malaysia argued that in spite of the fact that the CV methods have
showed that marital status and education are some factors their own limitations, there is no sufficient evidence to
that affected the Malaysia WTP for voluntary community- reject the results of carefully designed and executed CV
based health insurance (VCHI) Plan. Those who are experiments and the results can be proven to be consistent
married and have attained higher education levels would be with economic theory and other requirements (Cameron,
more likely to choose VCHI those others. The WTP amount 1991; Carson, 1997; Hanemann et al., 1991; Kristrӧm, 1990;
is higher for those who have current health insurance, Neumann and Johannesson, 1994; Randall, 1997).
higher incomes and are of Chinese ethnicity, but decreases
for those who are married (Shafie and Hasali, 2013). Other 2.3 Multinomial Logit Regression
factors that affected the WTP for health insurance is
monthly income, so that the premium needs to be adjusted Multinomial logistic regression is used to predict the
categorical placement in or the probability of category
for monthly income (Dong et al., 2005). As income
membership on a dependent variable based on multiple
increases, or the proportion of unemployed household
independent variables. The independent variables can be
members drop, people are willing to pay higher premiums
either dichotomous (i.e., binary) or continuous (i.e., interval
for health insurance (Okyere et al., 1997). Another research or ratio in scale). Multinomial logistic regression is a simple
conducted in developing country, India, showed the result extension of binary logistic regression that allows for more
that Nominal WTP correlates positively with income and than two categories of the dependent or outcome variable.
household composition did not affect WTP. However, HHs Like binary logistic regression, multinomial logistic
that experienced a high-cost health event and male regression uses maximum likelihood estimation to evaluate
respondents reported slightly higher WTP (Dror et al., the probability of categorical membership. Multinomial
2006). logistic regression does necessitate careful consideration of
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the sample size and examination for outlying cases. Like (b) No Chronic Disease
other data analysis procedures, initial data analysis should 6. Household composition
be thorough and include careful univariate, bivariate, and (a) 1-2
multivariate assessment. Specifically, multicollinearity
(b) 3-5
should be evaluated with simple correlations among the
independent variables. Also, multivariate diagnostics (i.e. (c) >5
standard multiple regression) can be used to assess for 7. Health Insurance Status
multivariate outliers and for the exclusion of outliers or (a) Have/ Ever Have Current Health Insurance
influential cases. Sample size guidelines for multinomial (b) No Current Health Insurance
logistic regression indicate a minimum of 10 cases per
independent variable (Schwab, 2002). 3.2 Data Collection
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Parameter Estimates
Premium Rate B Std. Error Wald df Sig. Exp(B)
Intercept -10.708 2.16 24.582 1 0
[Occupation=1,00] 20.564 9250.127 0 1 0.998 8.53E+08
[Occupation =2,00] 1.157 0.905 1.635 1 0.201 3.18
[Occupation =3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Monthly Income =1,00] 4.556 2.184 4.35 1 0.037 95.202
[Monthly Income =2,00] 6.285 1.392 20.372 1 0 536.263
[Monthly Income =3,00] 3.87 1.131 11.704 1 0.001 47.957
[Monthly Income =4,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Marital Status=1,00] 1.921 1.255 2.343 1 0.126 6.826
[Marital Status=2,00] 1.707 1.181 2.091 1 0.148 5.513
Group [Marital Status =3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
3 [Last Educational Background=1,00] 22.161 1.31E+04 0 1 0.999 4.21E+09
[Last Educational Background=2,00] 21.59 6897.854 0 1 0.998 2.38E+09
[Last Educational Background=3,00] 4.159 0.89 21.846 1 0 63.99
[Last Educational Background=4,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Health status=1,00] 1.272 0.703 3.272 1 0.07 3.566
[Health status=2,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[HH composition=1,00] 0.167 1.005 0.028 1 0.868 1.182
[HH composition=2,00] 2.551 1.016 6.31 1 0.012 12.82
[HH composition=3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Health Insurance Status=1,00] 0.45 0.665 0.459 1 0.498 1.569
[Health Insurance Status =2,00] 0c . . 0 . .
Intercept -5.734 1.582 13.131 1 .000
[Occupation=1,00] 12.086 9250.127 .000 1 .999 1.773E5
[Occupation=2,00] -1.295 .711 3.320 1 .068 .274
[Occupation=3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Monthly income=1,00] 8.308 .000 . 1 . 4.057E3
[Monthly income=2,00] 5.769 1.184 23.733 1 .000 320.124
[Monthly income=3,00] 4.474 .850 27.701 1 .000 87.702
[Monthly income=4,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Marital status=1,00] 3.245 1.268 6.544 1 .011 25.655
[Marital status=2,00] 2.808 1.218 5.316 1 .021 16.577
[Marital status=3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
Group 2
[Last educational background=1,00] -4.302 1.644E4 .000 1 1.000 .014
[Last educational background=2,00] 14.990 6897.854 .000 1 .998 3.236E6
[Last educational background=3,00] -.315 .580 .295 1 .587 .730
[Last educational background=4,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Health status=1,00] .462 .604 .586 1 .444 1.588
[Health status=2,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[HH composition=1,00] .321 .763 .177 1 .674 1.378
[HH composition=2,00] .622 .750 .688 1 .407 1.863
[HH composition=3,00] 0c . . 0 . .
[Health Insurance Status=1,00] -.100 .534 .035 1 .852 .905
[Health Insurance Status=2,00] 0c . . 0 . .
Price is an important signal of the uptake of the Health income than the other participants are expected to be willing
insurance program. In this case, the person's willingness to to pay more.
pay for health insurance premium should be noticed so the
participant’s financial acceptability can be found. But It is 6. CONCLUSIONS
important to note, however, that the willing to pay amount
should not be equated with the premium, as it is only This study resulted that the average monthly amount
reflective of the respondent’s financial acceptability (Shafie of the Indonesian people to join BPJS for Health program
and Hassali, 2013). The participants with a higher monthly were willing to pay was estimated to be 77,437.50 IDR for
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group 1 participants, 47,946.43 IDR for the group 2 advances and empirical tests since the NOAA panel.
participants and 30,450 IDR for the group 3 participants for American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79(5),
BPJS for Health program. Those who have attained higher 1501–1507.
education and have occupation would be more likely to join Donfouet H., Makaudze E., Malin E., and Edimo J. The
BPJS for Health program. The other factors that affected Economic Value of the Willingness-to-Pay for a
group 2 participants were health insurance status. This may Community-Based Prepayment Scheme in Rural
be due to their experience with the benefits of having Cameroon. Faculty of Economics and Management.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT Masyarkat Membayar Iuran Jaminan Kesehatan di
Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Selatan. Universitas
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