health spending by gaberment in Singapore.

hofmann said:

efficient from the perspective of government, not people.

its the people who are paying for the cost of this efficiency.

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eatshitndie said:

i was in sg recently to investigate the cause of sinkies' swarming of clinics and hospitals. not surprisingly, i found sinkies have becum hypochondriacs much like americans hooked on getting all sorts of medication from western-style health care to tcm, for instant relief. out of several patients i surveyed, close to half of the medication prescribed are useless and not addressing the issue which is mostly mental and based on paranoia. the other half are placebos ranging from anti-depressants to anti-allergens. there are even patients who have been taking wafarin, a blood thinning medication, for the last 2 years! no wonder they are fainting and dropping in the streets! sinkies lack good medical dialogues with their primary physicians due to language issues, plus the fact that doctors perceive them as sheep not knowing and understanding medication pitfalls, side-effects and limitations. doctors have a problem convincing sinkies to chill off and stop seeing them for mundane consultations. because sinkies want instant cure based on medication, doctors have little choice but to prescribe placebos. tons of them.

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frenchbriefs said:

rubbish,u think singaporeans have that kind of luxury like americans?all medication have to be paid out of our own pockets or our medisave.....on the other hand obamacare has granted americans free access to the biggest texan all you can eat buffalo pill buffet.....from rubitussin to oxycotin to xanax u name it.....not only that america pays u to be on drugs,just pop a couple seroquel XR for ur so called "bipolar disorder" and collect ur mental disability social security check every month!!!the only time singaporeans see the doctor is when they need a mc to get a break from their indian colleaques with B.O.

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eatshitndie said:

i was in sg recently to investigate the cause of sinkies' swarming of clinics and hospitals. not surprisingly, i found sinkies have becum hypochondriacs much like americans hooked on getting all sorts of medication from western-style health care to tcm, for instant relief. out of several patients i surveyed, close to half of the medication prescribed are useless and not addressing the issue which is mostly mental and based on paranoia. the other half are placebos ranging from anti-depressants to anti-allergens. there are even patients who have been taking wafarin, a blood thinning medication, for the last 2 years! no wonder they are fainting and dropping in the streets! sinkies lack good medical dialogues with their primary physicians due to language issues, plus the fact that doctors perceive them as sheep not knowing and understanding medication pitfalls, side-effects and limitations. doctors have a problem convincing sinkies to chill off and stop seeing them for mundane consultations. because sinkies want instant cure based on medication, doctors have little choice but to prescribe placebos. tons of them.

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hofmann said:

how are anti-depressants and anti-allergens placebos? they serve to treat a medical condition. a sugar cube will be a placebo.

as to the language issue, its to be expected since most of the doctors in the polyclinics are FTs who cant communicate with locals.

anyway you have avoided the issue of the people paying the price and cost for this efficiency - its simply passing the cost on to patients. this policy might have been defensible in the early days when the country was broke. but now....?

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winnipegjets said:

The PAP says nurses are unskilled workers and thus deserve low pay. Are the doctors, directors, ministry of health elites chewing up the $8 billion?

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eatshitndie said:

anti-depressants and anti-histamine tablets are not lethal, not prone to overdose, and are easily obtainable off the shelf in a retail pharmacy. you don't need a doc, let alone a specialist, to prescribe them. a sugar cube or mint may help soothe frayed nerves, but the sinkie patient wants to see tablets and capsules in fancy packaging with fancy names from fancy foreign companies such as merck or glaxosmithkline. they are expensive designer placebos.

the cost of healthcare per capita is already low by oecd standards, and it can be lower if sinkies refrain from visiting a&e for less serious outpatient issues and hospital stay for care that can be done at home. many of the elderly patients warded in hospitals with non-acute conditions are abandoned there by their children and relatives, much like the elders abandoned in hospice care facilities all over the island. this is the work of sinkies and not the pap.

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Leongsam said:

Singaporeans and Asians in general are responsible for the surge in antibiotic resistant strains of superbugs because most DEMAND antibiotics for every ailment under the sun including all viral infections which antibiotics are absolutely useless against.

In Singapore, I was given antibiotics every time I went to the doctor for a fever. I didn't ask for them and I never took them. It was "standard issue" for every consultation.

In NZ, I have not taken any antibiotics for the last 10 years. The doctors here won't prescribe then unless you have a bacterial infection.

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eatshitndie said:

yet they kept pushing antibiotics to patients despite the viral ailment. this confirms your astute observation.

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Leongsam said:

Singaporeans and Asians in general are responsible for the surge in antibiotic resistant strains of superbugs because most DEMAND antibiotics for every ailment under the sun including all viral infections which antibiotics are absolutely useless against.

In Singapore, I was given antibiotics every time I went to the doctor for a fever. I didn't ask for them and I never took them. It was "standard issue" for every consultation.

In NZ, I have not taken any antibiotics for the last 10 years. The doctors here won't prescribe then unless you have a bacterial infection.

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eatshitndie said:

i was flabbergasted to find out that sinkie doctors in clinics are prescribing antibiotics to patients who have been infected with flu, which is viral, not bacterial. these are sinkie doctors who graduated at nus. i explained to them that vaccines combat viruses while antibiotics combat bacteria, and bacteria like microbes can still survive in harsh environments while viruses die under ultraviolet light, yet they kept pushing antibiotics to patients despite the viral ailment. this confirms your astute observation.

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eatshitndie said:

anti-depressants and anti-histamine tablets are not lethal, not prone to overdose, and are easily obtainable off the shelf in a retail pharmacy. you don't need a doc, let alone a specialist, to prescribe them. a sugar cube or mint may help soothe frayed nerves, but the sinkie patient wants to see tablets and capsules in fancy packaging with fancy names from fancy foreign companies such as merck or glaxosmithkline. they are expensive designer placebos.

the cost of healthcare per capita is already low by oecd standards, and it can be lower if sinkies refrain from visiting a&e for less serious outpatient issues and hospital stay for care that can be done at home. many of the elderly patients warded in hospitals with non-acute conditions are abandoned there by their children and relatives, much like the elders abandoned in hospice care facilities all over the island. this is the work of sinkies and not the pap.

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akasha said:

In Sierra Leone, health spending stood at $96 (£58) per person in 2012. This compares favourably to Liberia ($66) and Guinea ($32). By comparison the UK spends $3,648 and US $8,895

How much do Singapore gaberment spend on health care for the people?

Or is it even possible that instead of spending what Sierra Leone or Liberia, Singapore extract even more money from the people than spending that money
Of course, we know they spend millions and billions on their own pay and for FTs here.

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Cestbon said:

OMG from the graph Sg losing to 3rd whole country like Chile/Mexico/Slovenia ...............maybe more if graph extended included all country.

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akasha said:

Killing of the PAPs must start soon.
Their blood and blood of their relations 3 generations removed must flow to wash away their filth

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