Not for love of money, but of Humanity. "Greater is he who works for the good of all, then he who works for the good of himself only" ~ Matthew 25:40: "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'"- (NIV). I live in Singapore where the Emperor must not be disturbed.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Like private insurers, Medishield-life should also give freebies and discounts to encourage citizens to keep fit....

"Those who pass all four health markers — Body Mass Index, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and cholesterol — and are currently insured under NTUC Income’s IncomeShield or Enhanced IncomeShield will receive a S$50 CapitaMall shopping voucher each year that they take the test. Singaporeans who are not yet insured with NTUC Income will receive a S$50 discount off their first year premiums if they decide to sign up for Enhanced IncomeShield."[Rewards await healthy NTUC Income clients (TDY, 28May2015)]

For one thing, I believe that medishield-life premiums are probably going to increase exponentially no matter how much 'prefunding' premised deductions are made from individual CPF medisave accounts if there is no policy effort at promoting/ rewarding healthy lifestyle adoption amongst (compulsory) insurance policy holders.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Parliamentary Elections Act says that RCs under PA treating residents to attend PAP election meetings constitutes a corrupt practice?

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT: (CHAPTER 218)
CORRUPT PRACTICES:
..
Treating
58.—(1) A person shall be guilty of treating if he corruptly, by himself or by any other person, either before, during or after an election, directly or indirectly gives or provides, or pays wholly or in part the expense of giving, any meat, drink, refreshment, cigarette, entertainment or other provision or thing or any money or ticket or other means or device to enable the procuring of any such meat, drink, refreshment, cigarette, entertainment or other provision or thing, to or for any person —
(a) for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to vote or refrain from voting;
(b) for the purpose of inducing that person to attend or remain at any election meeting;
(c) on account of any such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting or being about to vote or refrain from voting at the election; or
(d) on account of any such person having attended an election meeting.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Greedy and Lazy Singaporeans cause healthcare to be unaffordable to themselves.

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Singaporeans consider healthcare in Singapore expensive because Singaporeans have not only neglected their health (Feb2012: 'Health alert: One in 3 will develop diabetes'May 2015: 'A new dialysis patient every 5 hours in S'pore'), but are also unnecessarily KIASU and KIASI where hospitalisation is concerned with a vast majority (67.9%) of current medishield members (2.404M/3.593M members (FY2013) quandering $ on private integrated shield plans), out of aFY2013 resident population of 3.8448M. Even as a proportion of the total resident population (2013) of 3.8448M, the proportion of Singaporeans expecting to seek private (B1 and above class ward treatment in gahmen and private hospitals) is still 2.404/3.8448 = > 62.5% which shows that a vast majority of Singaporeans DO NOT ACCEPT SUBSIDISED PUBLIC C or B2 class ward treatments.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Minister of Health Gan admits that ill-health among citizens is a public policy planning mistake?

“If you look around, our investments in health promotion and diseases prevention, I think... it is actually significantly lower than the amount of money we spend on treating diseases,” he (Minister Gan Kim Yong) said.
: Due to a lack of "holistic approach towards health promotion, taking into account how can we empower consumers so that they make the right choice"
All this in the light of evidence that 'Healthy Lifestyle May Prevent 86% Of Heart Attacks'[Ã…kesson, A et al “Low-risk diet and lifestyle habits in the primary prevention of myocardial infarction in Men” J Am Coll Cardiol 2014; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.06.1190.]

Poor Minister of Health Singapore, he is locking the stable door only after the horse has bolted...:a lack of "investments in health promotion and diseases prevention"...