Make America Singapore Healthcare

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/opinion/sunday/make-america-singapore.html

by elmar • 9 years ago

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elmar• 9 years ago

Singaporeans pay for much of their own care out of their own pockets, and their major insurance program is designed to cover long-term illnesses and prolonged hospitalizations, not routine care. The combination has produced genuinely extraordinary results: The island state has excellent health outcomes while spending, as of 2014, just 5 percent of G.D.P. on health care. (By comparison, a typical Western European country that year spent around 10 percent; the United States spent 17 percent.)

npratini• 9 years ago

This article basically says 'great idea but not going to happen here' (see: "They have their principles, and making America Singapore is simply a non-starter.") Seems as if the U.S. has these huge ongoing problems with healthcare but nobody can fix them... including tons of players/$ in health tech. Is the only thing that can effect actual change a huge policy overhaul?

Make America Singapore Healthcare

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