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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Your logic is absurd when you are applying it to businesses.
It is akin to saying the BMW sales people should explain to customers that there really isn't all that much difference between a BMW and a Lexus.
Or expecting the Apple Store to tell people they JUDGE to be poor to go buy Xiaomi phones instead.
You might be surprised that some of these "poor aunties" you speak of could be quite financially well off.
Leave the subsidies and determination of whether a patient meets criteria as needy to the social worker and the finance people.
The other option is to nationalize healthcare. All healthcare falls under MOH then. |
This is a never ending debate.
Market forces will speak for itself.
Healthcare is not a commodity. It is a business and sales of service.
It is fortunate that Singapore public has access to excellent healthcare at subsidized rates.
This is highly unusual in other countries.
I think the better to do ones should seek private healthcare. The service is different and there are more choices of medications and procedures, done more efficiently.
I would like to highlight that all private doctors served their time faithfully in the public sector at one point in their life before.
We dont cap the price of computers and cellphones? Then we should not cap the price of healthcare. The price needs to be managed.
The value is whether the healthcare provider can deliver care that is alligned with your healhcare targets.