| > Have you noticed that in Singapore all the nurses are Filipino though? 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. |