Everyday I look at my Medisave account with joy and laughter. I
thank the Gods that we have been blessed with such merciful leaders
as Khaw Boon Wan, Lim Hng Kiang, Vivian Balakrishnan, Mah Bow Tan,
Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong who selflessly strive to make our
medical care the best in the world!
God bless the PAP!
The Tale of 2 Leukemia Cases:- The Haves versus the
Have-nots
Firstly, let me
preface this by saying
it’s
no laughing matter that BG Yeo's son has leukemia, and also that
Marjorie Soh, the 12 year old girl lost her battle with leukemia at
the age of 12. I can't imagine the pain of losing one's child at
that age.
However, I am struck by the contrast and similarity between these 2
cases. In one case, BG Yeo has a young son diagnosed with leukemia,
and the Sohs also have a young daughter diagnosed with leukemia
too. One family carries on life with no noticeable financial
burden, and the other family is in effect bankrupt and chased after
by creditors and have to sell their home.
BG Yeo is a wealthy man, we all know this, and
despite the ability to get
cheap medical care in Singapore for his son (such as $8 heart bypass
surgeries available only to ministers like him), he chooses to send
his entire family (all 5 of them) to Memphis Tennessee to live
there for 9 months while his son undergoes medical treatment there.
I am not even going to guess what the cost is. And while there, he
renovates his house into a sterile environment for his son, yet
another $1 million spend there easily.
The heartlanders Soh in the meantime, using Singapore doctors and hospital (because the govt.
tells them they are best in medical field in the region) runs up a
$400K medical bill, and still the daughter dies. I guess that BG
Yeo did not get the memo that he was already living in the country
that has the bestest facilities and doctors, and decided to take
his son to the US. The Sohs
have spend literally every dollar they have to save their daughter,
just like any forumer reading this would have done. They have even
sold their home and yet its not enough to cover the bills. They
will be made bankrupt soon. And no govt. agency, hospital or doctor
can or is willing to save them. Even the evil doctor cut her bill
in half and then to zero for the Sultan of Brunei's sister. But not
applicable if you are just a normal citizen.
Sad to say, in Singapore, this
is not the exceptional case at all. From personal experience, I
have friends and relatives that have incurred 6 figure medical
bills despite all the plethora of supposed insurance, and financial
aid plans available according to the PAP. Wooden Goh used to say
repeatedly that no one will be left behind in S'pore's economic
success. I beg to differ, many people are being left
behind and they are not on the lower spectrum either. They are
regular people, not poorly educated or jobless.
What happened to the principle that all will receive the same
medical care? Since when has it been OK for a servant of the people
like BG Yeo to say local medicine is not good enough, I go to the
US? If the Sohs could afford it, I am sure they would have gone to
Memphis too, and maybe the BG and the Sohs could have been
neighbours.
Herein lies the deception that
Khaw, Mah and the other have played on the Singapore people.
1) health care is affordable.
No it's not, ask the Sohs and thousands like them.
2) U can monetize your flat for your
retirement. Not if you or your spouse or child has a serious
illness, in which case, u will do just like the Sohs and sell your
flat to pay for the medical costs. What are the odds that a serious
illness will happen to you or someone in your family before the age
of 65 yr?. Its high, so good luck to you if you are relying on your
flat to fund your retirement.
What does it say about a country with hundreds of billions $ in
reserve, multi million dollar ministers and politicians, shiny new
high rise, fantastic govt. buildings, politicians who go overseas
for medical treatment and French cooking, and all this cannot save one
little girl's family from financial ruin. If you still think u want
to vote for the PAP, u have rocks in your brain. Just
remember, TODAY IT WAS THE
SOHS, TOMORROW, IT COULD BE YOUR FAMILY. Just like
that.
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