Originally posted by Gazelle:
honestly you should be thankful that we have a good medical
facilities here. many people from neighbouring countries actually
travel to Singapore just to get medical treatment.
Yes, we "should be thankful that we have a good medical
facilities here" - but at what price to ourselves in having the
facilities and benefiting from it ?
The Government has already seen the competition in the Health and
Medical Sector that neighboring countries are building to also
cater to the poor standards of some of our neighboring
countries.
Thailand is now reputed to pose the most serious challenge against
us, with similar high quality facilities that are linked with
similar joint co-operation with VERY WELL KNOWN medical research
and hospitals from the USA.
Thailand has been able to offer the same high quality medical and
health care at a much lower costs than the same facilities in
Singapore - with the facilities in Thailand being owned by PRIVATE
enterprises, compared to the facilities that are owned by the
Government but misleadingly made to look "PRIVATISED" to justify
the higher charges.
Direct and Indirect Taxes in Singapore has become a burden to
Singaporeans, and have allowed the Government to collect windfall
annual surplus that are not effectively spent for the benefit of
Singaporean - in a manner that make the "quality of LIFE" better
and allowing for a safe nest egg during retirement.
How often have we heard that the majority of those growing old will
have to DOWNGRADE, selling their present HDB homes so as to be able
to live out their old age ?
How did this come about, if not for the high cash outlay to pay for
the high cost of living and services - that are caused by the
manner in which the Government imposed direct and indirect taxes,
ineffective manner in spending the taxes for high cost services to
the citizens, which require the citizens to pay for the high costs
- all of which deplete the Citizens bank and CPF account.