TR EMERITUS

Dear Dr Jeremy Lim, I refer to your 14 Jun 2013 Straits Times article [1] in which you cited Professor William Haseltine’s new book and Ms Gillian Tett’s subsequent commentary as examples of how Singapore healthcare is being held up as a model for low spending and impressive population health metrics. Sadly, there is a fundamental... 

Dear Mr Haseltine, I refer to your 23 Mar 2013 Straits Times article “Learning from S’pore: It pays to make patients pay” [1]. You wrote that Singapore gets much better health care for less than 25% of US health care costs and around half of European healthcare costs. You must not forget that Western nations have much... 

I refer to the 8 Apr 2013 TR Emeritus article “SG’s ex-Political Detainees – What did they really stand for?” by “Singaporean Citizen” / Mr Nathan Chan. Mr Chan found evidence from the book the “Fajar Generation” showing Dr Poh Soo Kai as being supportive of anti-colonialists like the Vietminh and the Algerians....