1983 Parliamentary debate revisited: Dr Toh blasted Goh Chok Tong on Medisave scheme « Editorial... tremeritus On 30 Aug 1983, the Minister of Defence and Second Minister for Health, Goh Chok Tong, proposed to move the Motion in parliament that the House approved in… Like · · Promote · Share John Chen Rick Zi:: Old PAP good. New PAP shit. 4 hours ago · Like · 2 Eric Seow Dr Toh Chin Chye was against the exorbitant ministers pay increase. 4 hours ago via mobile · Like · 2 Henry Zephyr Cheong MediSave is now used as a scam to lock up our money in the CPF by the ever increasing top up. Singapore Singaporeans via Jason Lee "Medisave is, as I pointed out in the Budget debate, a part of the Government budget and our budgets have been in surplus every year. It is misleading of the Minister for Health to go around the country and create the impression that we are encountering problems like the United States which face running deficits because of expenditure on social security programmes and defence. In fact, the only social security programme we have in Singapore is health. It is wrong to forget that even now patients make direct payments for medical treatment and hospitalization. It is wrong to create the impression that we are distributing health care for free. Payments made by patients constituted 24% of the recurrent expenditure of the Ministry of Health in 1981. The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization. What we are faced with, therefore, is the problem of apportioning of responsibility and cost. The propaganda put out by the two Ministers for Health is that medicine is a commodity that is consumed. I think it is a very dangerous assumption to believe that persons love to fall ill, that they go around shopping for sicknesses in the supermarkets, or that they like to spend their weekend in a hospital as if the hospital is a hotel. Or that the food served in the hospital is a la carte or buffet. That is perverse propaganda. And, therefore, Medisave is now being treated as a consumption tax." ~ Dr Toh 1983 Parliamentary debate revisited: Dr Toh blasted Goh Chok Tong on Medisave scheme « Editorial... tremeritus On 30 Aug 1983, the Minister of Defence and Second Minister for Health, Goh Chok Tong, proposed to move the Motion in parliament that the House approved in…
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