A PG: September 24, 2014 at 9:58 am (Quote) The nub of the issues stem from government policies of “What’s Wrong With Collecting More Money?” in all areas. Not only medical but public housing, private and public transport and manners of public service consumption. It is an observation that if you are a subsidized class patient in government linked hospitals, you are usually not accorded the appropriate level of medical attention you really need. Rookie doctors and housemen would be at your attendance. You are a guinea pig, a specimen to be used for experimental and training purpose so to speak. More than that, you will have to wait and queue up for a prolonged period of between six months to more than a year to get medical specialist outpatient appointments. The important fact to note is that the so-called subsidy is not cost subsidy but market subsidy meaning a paltry discount on benchmarked market prices as would be charged by private hospitals. Look at your medical invoices and you will know what I mean…..markup, say 300 per cent and than discount 150 per cent to give a perception of generous 50 per cent subsidy. Look at the PGP cards just issued, whatever touted and sold as a tribute to the PG is hollow and empty when medical spending on the CHAS cards were rolled over thereby drastically reducing whatever meagre credits they claimed on the PGP card. Some even down to zero value at the point of receipt of the PG Card. Got to wait till the next calendar year paltry top-ups. Government linked hospitals placed wealthy foreign medical tourist patients first on priority and than local paying class patients second. The rest can go wait out for all they care. If you are a subsidized class patients you will have to wait for a long time and in the process if your sickenss gets the better of you, the government will than have one less social liability. The “hypocritical oath” taken by doctors here is just a matter of formality and in the Singapore context would have been better done without. All in the name of profit making and “What’s Wrong With Collecting More Money?” Our patriarch once said….”Never give what belongs to you because you will have less to give away and nobody will like you when you don’t have more to give. Always give what does not belong to you.” This is exactly the tenet of all our government policies. Think hard at the ballot boxes the next general election. tremeritus/2014/09/24/do-doctors-believe-in-the-hypocritical-oath/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:37:16 +0000
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