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by bluerobotcat
2317 days ago
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Have you noticed that in Singapore all the nurses are Filipino though? I don't think they earn much and I reckon that has to help with getting costs down... I also disagree that healthcare is uniformly cheap here. GP visits are not particularly cheap. You get to spend very little time with the GP and typically are sold a bunch of drugs you don't need (in Europe there's separation of clinics and pharmacies, which introduces some checks & balances). To give another example, in Europe I used to go for a glaucoma test every year (due to family history) and pay about 20-30 euros. However, in Singapore, doctors look at you funny when you request to be tested for this as preventative health care is not really thing here. I did get tested twice for Glaucoma in Singapore (at the National Eye Center) and ended up with a bill of 250 SGD (~ 175 EUR) each time. The second time around, the doctor afterwards admitted that the bulk of the tests I had been given hadn't really been warranted. (Oh, and I couldn't exactly go in the same day by the way. There was a waiting list, though I don't recall how many days/weeks I had to book in advance.) Finally, getting cancer has been known to bankrupt people in Singapore. |
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Nope? I’ve been in hospital 4 times in the past 8 years. And a 5th time if I include when my daughter was born.
The Nurses in the wards were not filipino. But one of the Nurses in A&E were.
> I also disagree that healthcare is uniformly cheap here. GP visits are not particularly cheap. You get to spend very little time with the GP and typically are sold a bunch of drugs you don't need
I can’t compare to Europe. But I can say that seeing a GP and getting drugs is FAR cheaper in Singapore than Australia... by ALOT. The entire cost of a consultation + drugs is cheaper than the consultation fee in Australia.
Not only that having to then go to a pharmacy to pick up drugs is the worst.
Doctors here also don’t just give drugs you don’t need. They do give drugs more often and that’s due to the mentality of Asia where If they see a doctor they often want drugs to fix a non existent problem. But I’ve had Doctors in Singapore ask more questions than in Australia and give me only what I need or want to give me nothing.
> To give another example, in Europe I used to go for a glaucoma test every year (due to family history) and pay about 20-30 euros.
Specialists aren’t cheap compared to Europe or somewhere like Taiwan, but compared to America it’s peanuts.
> getting cancer has been known to bankrupt people in Singapore.
I don’t believe this for a second, because for Citizens, healthcare is subsidised. And company with more than 50 employees has to have health care insurance. Basically it would only bankrupt you if you were a foreigner at a small company and didn’t buy insurance for yourself. Which again is still cheaper than NZ/Aus.