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I failed to understand why this elderly must appealed to use his medisave. All along I thought this is automatic because when I see a specialist at SGH some years ago, the cashier asked me whether I want to use my medisave to pay for the few dollars consultation fee (after various deduction like CHAS it became just a few dollars). As it was just a few bucks, I decided to pay cash.

Then just last month I went to Polyclinic to get some medicine, the nurse at the paying machine asked me whether I want to use medisave to pay for the few dollars medicine (few dollars is after various deduction). I told her yes, she pressed a few buttons on the machine and gave me a receipt which says payment waiting approval from CPF. I took the medicine home and 2 days later I received an SMS from CPF saying payment approved.

So why this man needs approval?......

I am wondering too why the patient needs to appeal? 

I believe that the use of medisave is capped at a certain amount within a time frame. The patient's medical bill could gave exceeded the cap.

The state minister did not feel ashamed of the system, instead he hit back at HTR for her manner of questioning the system thru her parliamentary speech. Lol.