Serious Lim Tean's great analysis on Gay Loong's on NDR speech

[Papsmearer]

That may be your opinion but Singapore's system is ranked one of the best in the world so the PAP is obviously doing a lot of things right.

http://gazettereview.com/2016/04/countries-with-the-best-health-care/

5 – Singapore

It should be unsurprising that Singapore ranks highly on this list. It’s an affluent country that ranks high in human development and has a high GDP. It balances services between the government and private companies. Base-level services are provided by the government, and additional coverage can be purchased from private companies. The government is in charge of regulating the private companies and setting prices.

Angmo publications are forever knowing shit about singapore and talking shit about it. Just like the transparency index that says we have low corruption, but Ministers can pay themselves millions each year. I think maybe this publication is not fit to wipe your ass on.

 

[yellowarse]

That may be your opinion but Singapore's system is ranked one of the best in the world so the PAP is obviously doing a lot of things right.

Oh yes, when you look at life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, blah blah, we rank with the best of them. Cuba and North Korea are also right up there. This article is as naïve as they come.

But people don't understand that this is achieved despite – not because of – inadequate govt spending. It is a result of a Hobson's choice that the working class makes all the time – sacrifice job and pension security by ploughing their hard-earned savings into a 99-year rental property and some sorry excuse for a healthcare fund. They work long past their 'retirement age' to keep plugging the gap in the face of inflation, diminishing returns on their savings and rising healthcare costs.

And most importantly, they sacrifice their quality of life. We fare dismally in end-of-life healthcare and health-related quality of life indices compared to other developed countries. We rank consistently as one the world's unhappiest nations.

When jobs are aplenty and wages are rising, this mirage can be sustained seemingly interminably. But with rising unemployment, stagnant wages and a prolonged economic downturn, something's got to give sooner or later. The house of cards will start to tumble down.

 

[Leongsam]

Oh yes, when you look at life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, blah blah, we rank with the best of them. Cuba and North Korea are also right up there. This article is as naïve as they come.

But people don't understand that this is achieved despite – not because of – inadequate govt spending. It is a result of a Hobson's choice that the working class makes all the time – sacrifice job and pension security by ploughing their hard-earned savings into a 99-year rental property and some sorry excuse for a healthcare fund. They work long past their 'retirement age' to keep plugging the gap in the face of inflation, diminishing returns on their savings and rising healthcare costs.

And most importantly, they sacrifice their quality of life. We fare dismally in end-of-life healthcare and health-related quality of life indices compared to other developed countries. We rank consistently as one the world's unhappiest nations.

When jobs are aplenty and wages are rising, this mirage can be sustained seemingly interminably. But with rising unemployment, stagnant wages and a prolonged economic downturn, something's got to give sooner or later. The house of cards will start to tumble down.

North Korea's life expectancy is 70.4 yrs. (ranked 155th in the world)

Singapore's life expectancy is 85 yrs. (ranked 3rd in the world)

Cuba is ranked 52nd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy#List_by_the_CIA_.282016.29

I'm wondering where you get your data from.

Singaporeans are unhappy not because they are impoverished or lacking material wealth. They are a bunch of miserable sods because they have extremely unrealistic expectations. They expect to be spoonfed from birth to grave by the government while giving nothing in return to society.

 

[Papsmearer]

Singaporeans are unhappy not because they are impoverished or lacking material wealth. They are a bunch of miserable sods because they have extremely unrealistic expectations. They expect to be spoonfed from birth to grave by the government while giving nothing in return to society.

That is fucking bullshit. No singaporean wants to be spoonfed. But imagine if they tried to find things out and do things themselves that do not follow what the PAP wants? That will never be allowed, so they are fed a narrative that the PAP wants them to follow but when they do that, they are called spoonfed. Do I look and sound like i have been spoonfed by the PAP? Do 30% of voters sound like they were spoonfed?

 

[Pek Kim Lui]

sugar tax, alcohol tax and cigarette tax are for revenue but disguised as prevention of diabetes, liver cancer and lung cancer. Typical PAP untruths and half truths

cud it be that sugar tax now changed to water price increase so that it can be bumped up to 30%