What has Khaw Boon Wan done for citizens' health care ?
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When local chose to migrate, the remaining local were told to be friendly to foreign professional so to encourage them to be citizen.Originally posted by foomwee88:This is the reason why we had migrated to overseas,we dont trust the Ministers anymore in Spore,they r the $ making machine for themselves. -
Apparently, the system is tuned such that, they can make more money from you through multiple appointments spaced out over many months, rather than healing you in short course....Originally posted by charlize:So sad when you hear people saying it is cheaper to die than to go to the hospital for treatment in Singapore.
Haiz.
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Obviously so... the gov is banking on these foreigners to take on citizenship so that they will maintain their votes!Originally posted by will4:When local chose to migrate, the remaining local were told to be friendly to foreign professional so to encourage them to be citizen.
But honestly, if they say do away with GE, what can we say? In fact, might as well do away with all the pretense of GE....it's become too predictable and lame...
Keep this up, and the gov will find the country choked full of foreigners and locals largely gone...
It will be too late for them then.... and we who migrated, will be laughing at them...! -
How many foreigners will become citizen?Originally posted by ShutterBug:Obviously so... the gov is banking on these foreigners to take on citizenship so that they will maintain their votes!
But honestly, if they say do away with GE, what can we say? In fact, might as well do away with all the pretense of GE....it's become too predictable and lame...
Keep this up, and the gov will find the country choked full of foreigners and locals largely gone...
It will be too late for them then.... and we who migrated, will be laughing at them...! -
Do you know there are 900 plus GCE "A" level students with at least 5 distinctions applied for the 200 plus Undergrauate Medical places in NUS?Originally posted by ShutterBug:There's the idiocy of the healthcare system; lauded as World Class, but functions like some third world country's FREE clinic...
Like I've said; the gov rather sits on the mountain of the people's money, then hire enough doctors for the hospitals they setup!!
Since these are the academic bright pupils,why cant our Gov take all of them and filter them after first year of study?instead they stick to the quota and ask them 2 apply 4 other courses of studies and this stupid SG later claims there are huge shortage of Docs here!!!Why cant they spend 500k on one extra Doc in spore and take lesser pay for the sake of Sillyporeans!Just cant understand : -
i would be grateful if he didn't increase the registration fee as much as he did in 2007!:
SingaporeÂ’s healthcare system - uniquely Singapore? (Part 2)
Leong Sze Hian
F6.February 2007 - DRUGS LICENSING:
On the licensing and registration fees for medicinal and cosmetic products, before 1991, there were hardly any fees payable for the registration of medicinal products. When registration began in 1991, the per product licence fee was $66 a year.
Since a new regulatory agency was created a few years ago, the fees have increased to $80, $100, $120, $360, $750, and up to $77,500 per first year, in 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively.
Not counting 2007, this fees increase was at a compound rate of 18 per cent a year, for the last 15 years until 2006.
This has resulted in pharmaceutical businesses reducing their product lines and is also a deterrent to expanding their product ranges in Singapore. The higher costs are also being passed on to consumers. More Singaporeans are buying from Johor Baru and neighbouring countries.
For example, the price of Norvasc 5mg tablet box of 30 for heart condition and Lipitor 10mg is $28.70 (RM65) and $55.30 (RM125) in Johor Baru, compared with $75.20 and $96, respectively, in Singapore.
To put this in perspective, according to the ChannelNewsAsia programme, War on Cancer, on Feb 11, the cost of cancer drugs has gone up 500-fold over the last decade. -
Our gov too smart you see... that's why their perfect policies and ideas appear STUPID to us... we dumb asses what...Originally posted by foomwee88:Do you know there are 900 plus GCE "A" level students with at least 5 distinctions applied for the 200 plus Undergrauate Medical places in NUS?
Since these are the academic bright pupils,why cant our Gov take all of them and filter them after first year of study?instead they stick to the quota and ask them 2 apply 4 other courses of studies and this stupid SG later claims there are huge shortage of Docs here!!!Why cant they spend 500k on one extra Doc in spore and take lesser pay for the sake of Sillyporeans!Just cant understand :
They also so smart now they realize Casinos can bring in more income... for their pockets...
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Just read the news this morning.....medical fee gone up.....for polyclinic and hospital........sigh
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But Docs'salary is still remained the same!!! why medical fee go up????Originally posted by Mid9Sun:Just read the news this morning.....medical fee gone up.....for polyclinic and hospital........sigh
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They claimed that demand goes up so price also gone up too.Originally posted by foomwee88:But Docs'salary is still remained the same!!! why medical fee go up???? -
I thought the polyclinic fees has gone up to $0.80 which is announced months back to this $8.80. What another increase again?Originally posted by Mid9Sun:Just read the news this morning.....medical fee gone up.....for polyclinic and hospital........sigh
When the economy is doing well, they increased almost everything n there is also a shortage of hotel room. Phoenix hotel is closing for renovation.
I read it cost $125 for a hotel room in ORchard. -
This is the trouble when people spent too much until govt saw an increase in spending power among consumers. They decided to increase prices.Originally posted by (human):They claimed that demand goes up so price also gone up too. -
Seems like an inflation almost every where, the value of your money has dropped.
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man i remember during the last GE there was this uncle around 70 yr old
walk straight into his face n complain about something and he had the "Weeshumin" look on his face
that was priceless anyone has a screenshot of that? lol -
After 10 years, CGH ups A&E fee
a very simple excuse that 10 years never raise price and "increased overheads " to raise charges. even "they" themselves couldn't agree with these excuses.
By Tan Hui Leng, TODAY | Posted: 10 July 2007 1241 hrs
SINGAPORE - Ten years after it last revised its Accident and Emergency (A&E) charges, Changi General Hospital (CGH) has become the latest public hospital to up such fees.
Following in the wake of earlier hikes by the National University Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, CGH this month increased its A&E attendance fee by $10 — or 15 per cent — to $75. Even so, the hospital’s A&E charges are one of the lowest across public hospitals, said a spokesperson.
CGH also raised inpatient fees for the first time in seven years. For the B2 and C-class wards, the daily treatment fee went up by $1, representing a 6-to-10-per-cent increment.
The daily ward charge for B2 wards also rose by $1, or 2 per cent. Despite the coincidence of the timing, the hikes are not tied to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) increase that kicked in this month. The reason is rising operating costs, said the hospital.
On the other side of the island, the National University Hospital (NUH), too, recently raised some of its fees, attributing the need to increased operating costs.
From May 14, NUH increased ward charges for B2 and C-class wards by $2, increases of 4 and 8 per cent. The hospitalÂ’s last revision for both ward class charges was more than 10 years ago.
Both hospitals say GST will be continued to be absorbed for subsidised patients.
But the chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, Mdm Halimah Yacob, when contacted by TODAY, said: “‘Operational costs’ is a very broad term — what does it really include?”
Since late last year, public healthcare costs have been on the rise with various fee increases in hospital specialist outpatient clinics, polyclinics and inpatient wards.
From April, the Singapore General Hospital started charging $3 more for patients in class-B2 wards. C-class patients now pay $26 a day, up $1. Those were its first increases since 1993.
At NUH, the A&E fee was raised from $70 to $80 in January, its first such hike since 1997.
Over at Alexandra Hospital, A&E charges went up from $55 to $60 late last year, as did C-class ward charges — from $21 to $23 — and subsidised specialist outpatient clinic consultation rates, from $18 to $20.
KK WomenÂ’s and ChildrenÂ’s Hospital hiked ward treatment fees in February.
Hospitals can do better when it comes to being transparent about why they are charging more for various services, said Mdm Halimah.
“The most important thing is for hospitals to explain to the public why they are increasing fees, even if they are not passing on the 2-per-cent increase in GST to patients,” she said.
“I think one would be staff cost which over the years has been going up ... hospitals have to think of ways to control costs and enhance efficiency and productivity. And they should explain what they have done in this regard.”
CGH’s spokesperson said the hospital was “prudent in maintaining costs and has also been adopting many cost-saving measures”, such as those aimed at reducing energy and water consumption, and group purchase of equipment and drugs with SingHealth. “This has helped us to hold off fee increases for several years,” said the spokesperson.
Mdm Halimah said that while inpatient increments at CGH and NUH are marginal, she has received numerous pieces of feedback that A&E charges are, in general, too high — and were so even before the hikes.
“That increase will have more impact especially on Sundays and public holidays — when polyclinics and many general practitioners do not open — so that is one point one has to bear in mind,” she said. - TODAY/fa -
They can say anything - 10, 5, 3, 2, 1, year/s and increase their charges...
what the hell can we do??
What has it got to do with us whenever they increase charges of ANYTHING? It's not like they consulted us, the people of Singapore, or needed our concensus...
Operating Costs gone up they say, but in the first place who caused the increase of COSTS in general?
Lame as hell always... -
a friend of mine told me that should one day he is dignose with terminal illness, he will fly to tibet and die there due to atmospheric changes. this is a cheaper option
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A family friend of mine was recently diagnosed with Colorectal Cancer, stage one type.
Generally, we all know Stage One Cancer is treatable and there's a high chance of survival. However, when I visited him he was cheerful even though prior to his discovery of Cancer, he had his spine operated on due to a compressed disc and has metal braces in side holding up his lower spinal column, and a more recent surgery on his right knee to replace a worn out knee joint.
All these surgeries has more or less depleted his CPF Medisave funds, and with the onset of Cancer of his Colon, he was still smiling and joking but he said something before I left; "Well, I'll just go through whatever's necessary... and when my CPF money runs out.. so be it..."
As I walked away, I couldn't help feeling so so bitter and furious....with the knowledge that we're living in a so called 1st World Country, a government so super rich, but its people are left to their own devices....
CPF, Medisave, Retirement Funds, all these "safety nets" - what good is it in the end if one comes down with a major illness and healthcare along with all other general cost of living, relentlessly increasing??
Can you imagine those who not yet able to draw on their CPF because they havein't reached 65, but are already plagued by medical condition/s which made them lose their jobs and unable to find employment due to both age and medical reasons and yet unable or NOT ALLOWED to touch their CPF money to pay for their medical condition/s????
I say it is a HEARTLESSLY CRUEL SYSTEM...
Safety Net my foot....!