OPINION: The future of healthcare in Singapore - Dr Tan Lip Hong, Dr Leong Yan Hoi and Dr Wong Wee Nam

Singapore Democrats, 13 Mar 2012
Healthcare is not a commodity, and we believe that market forces have no part to play in the financing or delivery of basic health care to the people in our country.
No one should go bankrupt while seeking medical treatment and no one, especially the poor, should be discriminated against. If healthcare is a basic right, then the system must be designed to ensure that even the poorest among us can afford it.
No one willingly falls sick but when he comes to healthcare consumption, the patient becomes an irrational consumer. Full story