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(07-07-2022, 08:00 AM)revealer Wrote: The answer is simple: the medical bills are never the same for everyone and as medical advances, more complex illnesses can be treated and therefore, need more medical expense. The fairer system is to pay as you are treated rather than prepaying a universal fee assuming all illnesses are the same.
If you are in Britain, NZ and Australia where there is also free medical treatment like HK, try to book an appointment for a simple surgery, you will find it easier and quicker to do so in Singapore. In Britain etc, that simple surgery could take 6 or more months to book.
The idea of taking care of everyone is to ensure nobody is overburdened by serious illness. If you make people pay more
depending on severity of illness..it does not achieve that.
Now you change course to talk about waiting time.
Do you have proof the waiting time in HK is much longer? How much longer? HK govt has 40+ hospitals.
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(07-07-2022, 07:51 AM)sgbuffett Wrote: The counter argumnet us Singaporeans pay income tax +GST ...medical should be prepaid.
Do u want to pay higher income tax to subsidize medical care for those not working like yourself?
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I was reading and saw this on the first page of the article posted by TS then I stopped reading......
Quote:The issue with the public system is that it runs on a first-come, first-served basis, and due to the lack of medical staff, regardless of what service you are in need of, there will likely be a long waiting time. Depending on the demand some common surgical procedures can take from 8 up to 30 months to operate.
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(07-07-2022, 03:11 AM)sgbuffett Wrote: Taiwan which has to spend in defense to deter the world's biggest army has an even better system than HK. I have not come to them yet
Using defense as a reason not to spend on a comprehsive medical care system is a weak one.
If anything we have to really scrutinise beacsue on the one hand we are squeezing citizens for out of pocket payments while buying expensive military hardware that expire unused in 15yrs. As citizens we have to decide.
Please note TW spends less than half of SG in defense as percentage of GDP.
They rely heavily on US as fallback defence.
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(07-07-2022, 08:18 AM)winbig Wrote: Do u want to pay higher income tax to subsidize medical care for those not working like yourself?
We are already paying more and more as GST is raise through the years.
A medical system should take care of EVERYONE to a level we all do not worry about affordability and have to buy patches for govt system, worry about falling through the cracks and ever rising costs.
We need a system that is more committed to caring for our elderly.
Somehow we always find ways NOT to start improving.
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(07-07-2022, 08:23 AM)lylcnn Wrote: Please note TW spends less than half of SG in defense as percentage of GDP.
They rely heavily on US as fallback defence.
You mean Sungapore is under more threat and have to spend more than Taiwan. REALLY?
We need to re-think our priorities. Someone objective should look at this.
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