Re: PROMISE During 2006 ERECTIONS....BUT....Betrayal To All In The End.
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BEFORE LAST ELECTION
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03 May 2006
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan says means-testing will not be implemented in the next two years as originally planned.
He was responding on Wednesday to a Workers' Party's concern over the criteria to be used for means-testing.
Mr Khaw said: "The criteria? I don't know. I honestly don't know. I don't tell lies like some people. You don't want to implement a scheme that is so complicated, that it costs so much to do thorough means-testing. Then whatever you save, you have to now pay more for administrative costs. Now, that additional cost, someone has to bear it."
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AFTER LAST ELECTION
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Health minister says no basis for rise in medical insurance premiums
29 January 2008 1416 hrs (SST)
SINGAPORE : Bit by bit, the questions about implementing means testing in public hospitals are being addressed but one has lingered unanswered, until now: Will medical insurance premiums inflate as a result?
One media report had suggested this possibility, after the Life Insurance Association (LIA) of Singapore said means testing would have a "definite impact" on the health insurance market, and insurers would have to review their product designs and policies.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, however, gave his response in no uncertain terms when TODAY put the question to him. "There is no basis for such a rise," he said, in an email interview.