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Mr Lee Kuan Yew Dear Professor Tan, I refer to the 5 Jun 2013 Straits Times report of your speech on the occasion of the conference of Doctor of Laws to Mr Lee Kuan Yew by NUS [1]. Mr Lee wasn’t the visionary leader who brought success to the nation. Neither was he the man of imagination who pursued the unconventional. Instead,... 

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...