Median opportunity cost of NS= S$75,000++/pax (as implied by paternalistic PAP gahmen)...

Median opportunity cost of NS= S$75,000++/pax (as implied by paternalistic PAP gahmen)...

According to Singapore gahmen, median opportunity costs of EACH NSman in national service (Full time plus reservist liability) is S$75,000 or more.

I conclude this from the fact that: "For male citizens above 16.5 years of age who have not enlisted for NS, their parents need to furnish a bond in the form of a banker’s guarantee of $75,000, or 50 per cent of the combined annual gross income of both parents for the preceding year, if their son remains overseas for a period. - See more at: http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/art...r-not-required "

MOH= penny wise & pound foolish; treats illness only when it is too late.

Isn't prevention better than cure? Indeed, an ancient Chinese saying states:
“The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;”

Thus the doubt that MOH is actually doing anything to prevent people's illnesses from deteriorating (see ST letter below 'Subsidise more treatments at polyclinics'): so much to the extent that they need lengthy hospitalisations and treatments just to live another day (or is MOH just pandering to drug and technology companies and thus encouraging people to fall sick just so that they can utilise the expensive patented medical products when their medical conditions have deteriorated to a terminal stage (& make shareholders of drug + med tech companies $$$wealthy in the process))? Why does the MOH fail to provide ANY subsidy for essential allied healthcare services: e.g. physiotherapy/ podiatry services which can immensely improve a patient's health awareness/ habits and reverse/ prevent early illness from deteriorating to the stage where hospitalisation is acutely necessary to just to sustain life (平时不烧香，临时抱佛脚 [ping shi bu shao xiang , lin shi bao fo jiao] is a good description of MOH approach to public health in Singapore ).

Sans bicycle, Singapore will probably surrender once more, not too long after SG50.

Faced with severe healthcare challenges, a high terrorist threat and criticisms about high per-capita greenhouse gas emissions from Singapore, I think that Singapore has NO OTHER CHOICE but to embrace the humble bicycle with open arms.

Evidence of an incompetent SG gahmen in the face of an increasingly ill/ unfit population, addicted to fatty foods and allergic to exercise: i.e. 'lifestyle sick' (sick due to unhealthy lifestyle choices) :
Photo of obese person from: http://thewestsidestory.net/2-1-bill...ide/11632.html