Healthcare: Make America’s like Singapore’s?
I refer to the article “Make America Singapore ” (Straits Times, Mar 20). Singapore’s healthcare system is the marvel of the wealthy world It states that “(NYTIMES) – Is there an existing health insurance system that vindicates this boast? Yes, in a sense: There is Singapore, whose health care system is the marvel...
High overheads and costs of corporatised public hospitals recovered from patients
(This post is a slightly-edited comment explaining the high overheads and costs of restructured hospitals) I suspect the margin for “overheads and operations” are very high. This is the main problem with the restructuring & corporatizing of Singapore’s public hospitals since 1990. By being corporatized, the management...
No profit margin from sale of drugs?
As one of the biggest drug purchasers in the world, MOH Holdings should have been able to obtain bulk discounts from overseas suppliers. When medications are sold at much-lower prices across the causeway, something is clearly not right. WP recently queried MOH Minister Gan on whether public healthcare institutions have been...
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