Medical care cannot be subjected to market forces
I fully agree with Dr Tang Kok Foo ("Reasons for soaring private health-care costs"; Thursday) that the free market for private health care has to be reined in, and the unhealthy practice of doctors competing against one another to charge higher fees should be stopped. Medical care cannot be subjected to market forces. When...
The debate on Singaporeans’ roots
Pelikan Brief: I think Singaporeans of Chinese origin should reflect really hard – we are not Chinese, we are Singaporeans. My parents have never been to China and my grandparents were borned here. Whatever links we had with China broke the day LKY said we should stop speaking dialects. This is because with dialects, we would...
Vocal minority drowning out voices of majority on TRE
Dear TRE and readers, I am a member of the 2011 60.1% majority voting for our world class PAP government. Once in a while, I dropped by TRE to size up the other side. While I found TRE to be highly hilarious and entertaining in the past, recently, I found the voices to be troubling, protectionist and bordering on xenophobic. Right...
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