Medishield is too complicated for its own good, and a Health Minister with no relevant experience makes it worse
Medishield started in 1990 to provide insurance for catastrophic medical expenses. The co-payment was supposed to be covered by money in the CPF Medisave account. The problem is that the medical expenses were too high. There were caps placed on the use of Medisave, to prevent too much money being siphoned out. This result in...
HDB has failed in its key duty
It was reported that the lease buyback has now been extended to include 5-room (and bigger) HDB flats. Despite being among the world’s top retirement funds savers, we need to ask ourselves why we Singaporeans need to sell our HDB leases back to the government. When discussing this issue, we need to go back to the basic question...
Do you want a bully as your government?
Some people think that it does not matter that bloggers in Singapore are sued by the Singapore prime minister or that news sites are charged by the Singapore government. Don't worry, we can read something else. Another website will appear, they say. Alex Waipang Au wrote for the Yawning Bread blog. His first post was in 2004....
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