PM: Blindly prolonging life is not the solution
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Blindly raising ministers million dollars salaries is not the solution... and adds to the problems of the sick people...
Where to find so much money to try to help the sick and dying AND raise their own million dollars salaries?
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they care for themselves only. Do what we can not to give them chance to be such.Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:Blindly raising ministers million dollars salaries is not the solution... and adds to the problems of the sick people...
Where to find so much money to try to help the sick and dying AND raise their own million dollars salaries? -
Get lost, arrogant mushroom, you are not welcome to this thread started by me. Get lost if you are here to create trouble and not contribute positively. Get lost! With your kind of attitude and character, if you so claim that you are a doctor, you are a disgrace to the medical profession. Senior Professor and Emeritus told us that it is vital for doctors to have good character. Mind you, he sets a good example. He is very respectable, and as for you you are nowhere to be respected. YOu are nothing but a troublemaker in Speakers' Corner. Get lost!@Originally posted by oxford mushroom:The usual bunch of losers ranting again, then run away when they lose the argument....
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SingaporeÂ’s 3Ms plan has some glaring contradictions. Because ourOriginally posted by oxford mushroom:The usual bunch of losers ranting again, then run away when they lose the argument....
health declines as we age and health spending increases accordingly, any
compulsory savings scheme based on the principle of self-reliance should
ask people to save as much as they can during their working years for
their health- and long-term-care costs, particularly the high costs after
retirement. However, Medisave caps the balance in the medical savings
account to a maximum amount. This amount is not sufficient
to protect the elderly who have serious chronic diseases and need
surgery. Moreover, CPF allows participants to withdraw their savings
savings at age Sixty-two (now sixty-five), leaving only a tiny balance in the account. These features defeat the whole purpose of compelling people to save so that they have the financial means to be responsible for their own health expenses.
Private insurance schemes tend to select healthy people to insure and
exclude those who need more health services. Often a nation justifies
using a public monopoly to provide health insurance to avoid this risk
selection. Public monopoly also pools the risk nationwide. The Singapore
government created the MediShield as a public monopoly, insuring its
citizens for a part of their catastrophic medical expenses. Yet MediShield
adopted the risk selection practices of private insurance schemes by
excluding as enrollees persons aged seventy and older and by not covering
some expensive services, such as treatments for congenital abnormalities,
mental illness, and HIV/AIDS (Central Provident Fund 1999).
These restrictions contradict the rationale for using a public monopoly to
provide catastrophic insurance and defeat the purpose of insurance.
These irrational practices leave those who need risk protection the most
without insurance coverage. Those who canÂ’t afford to pay have to forgo
medical care or plead for public charity.
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Yep just saw the replies. Did not see them on the webpage thou.Originally posted by crazy monkey:did BMJ see the reply or choose to keep quiet ?
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MOH may introduce opt-out HIV testing for male adults
Yet another grand opt-out scheme from our great health minister....
SINGAPORE: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has said his ministry is considering having opt-out HIV screening tests for male adults at hospitals.
It is likely to be similar to HIV tests that are made available to pregnant mothers now.
Mr Khaw said: "One possibility is if you require admission, then as part of the admission procedure, we will do HIV screening unless you object. If you don't object, we will take your blood to do other tests that include the HIV test.
at the rate this is going...
Nurse: Why u here today?
Patient: I kena knock down by lorry, both legs broken, intestine falling out, coughing out blood.
Nurse: Wah! Okay, better admit you for surgery.
Patient: Ok.
Nurse: But wait!! First must test you for HIV.
Patient: But I dying and bleeding to death!!
Nurse: Very fast one!! (Takes blood, send for testing)
Nurse: Eh sorry ah! Your HIV test POSITIVE. So you going to die some day. We want to operate and save your life, but our Prime Minister say "BLINDLY PROLONGING LIFE IS NOT THE SOLUTION."
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Interesting blog (no, it's not mine) post here: KhawÂ’s Medieval Approach To Solving the AIDS Problem - here's the first three paras....Originally posted by pooh_bear:Yet another grand opt-out scheme from our great health minister....
at the rate this is going...
Nurse: Why u here today?
Patient: I kena knock down by lorry, both legs broken, intestine falling out, coughing out blood.
Nurse: Wah! Okay, better admit you for surgery.
Patient: Ok.
Nurse: But wait!! First must test you for HIV.
Patient: But I dying and bleeding to death!!
Nurse: Very fast one!! (Takes blood, send for testing)
Nurse: Eh sorry ah! Your HIV test POSITIVE. So you going to die some day. We want to operate and save your life, but our Prime Minister say "BLINDLY PROLONGING LIFE IS NOT THE SOLUTION."Our health minister is considering implementing an opt out scheme whereby every patient admitted into our hospital is tested for HIV unless he specifically opts out of it. Sort of like our Human Organ Translant Act (HOTA) where everyone is assumed to be a willing organ donor unless he specifically opts out.
I donÂ’t know about you, but seems like everytime the government wants to take stuff from us, we need to opt out just so they donÂ’t take it whereas if the government is giving out money like rebates, singapore shares or whatever, we need to opt in.
Maybe its just the mentality out the government- we owe them for the awesome job they are doing. -
I see more stupidity in the policies coming out these days. Most of them fail the common sense test..