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	<title>Comments on: Healthcare costs increase the most, but MediFund payouts declining?</title>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/12/healthcare-costs-increase-the-most-but-medifund-payouts-declining/comment-page-1/#comment-110299</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sinkapore with an aging population should seriously consider how to keep health care cost affortable to the aging population. It is not unique to Sinkapore as Europe and Japan are expericing the same problem. There is a wealth of useful information in both countries that we could safely copy and use. CPF was originally setup as a pension nestegg for one retirement. We should as a country spend more on health care but sadly it the health budget had declined over the years as the population aged.The billions dollar reserve that the country hold should be invested in the country for the benefit of the citizen. It is Sinkaporean&#039;s hard earned money and should rightly benefit them. We do not need to chase overseas investment to earn more money. The right balance need to struck and not just focus solely on grown. The citizen well being and happiness should be included in the measure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sinkapore with an aging population should seriously consider how to keep health care cost affortable to the aging population. It is not unique to Sinkapore as Europe and Japan are expericing the same problem. There is a wealth of useful information in both countries that we could safely copy and use. CPF was originally setup as a pension nestegg for one retirement. We should as a country spend more on health care but sadly it the health budget had declined over the years as the population aged.The billions dollar reserve that the country hold should be invested in the country for the benefit of the citizen. It is Sinkaporean&#8217;s hard earned money and should rightly benefit them. We do not need to chase overseas investment to earn more money. The right balance need to struck and not just focus solely on grown. The citizen well being and happiness should be included in the measure.</p>
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		<title>By: mun</title>
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		<dc:creator>mun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi. i writing as healthcare worker. MF criteria is confidential but enuf 2 say it does make sure tt ppl who fit description exist n if nt 4 MF they wun spend on medical.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi. i writing as healthcare worker. MF criteria is confidential but enuf 2 say it does make sure tt ppl who fit description exist n if nt 4 MF they wun spend on medical.</p>
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		<title>By: family man</title>
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		<dc:creator>family man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dread the rise of means testing. All well and hunky dory now, but watch out for the future - GST now 7%, new ERP gates coming up, means testing will slowly become a monster that will haunt all of us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dread the rise of means testing. All well and hunky dory now, but watch out for the future &#8211; GST now 7%, new ERP gates coming up, means testing will slowly become a monster that will haunt all of us.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Last year, a record $ 39.6 million from Medifund was given to 20,000 to 30,000 patients who made a record 301,126 successful applications&quot;

From among this millions of dollars, does this millions includes administrative and operational costs ? Remember NKF ? Where each majority of these money end up in operational cost and only ten cent used actually for charity for every dollar donated ?

Though the sentence say millions are given to help the patient, we know very well government&#039;s words have to be taken with grain of salt as this government is actually running Singapore Incorporated. Money is the objective not the nation judging from what we have seen.

It really shameful that the public has to scrutinise the government instead of government self-regulated itself. Uniquely Singapore.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Last year, a record $ 39.6 million from Medifund was given to 20,000 to 30,000 patients who made a record 301,126 successful applications&#8221;</p>
<p>From among this millions of dollars, does this millions includes administrative and operational costs ? Remember NKF ? Where each majority of these money end up in operational cost and only ten cent used actually for charity for every dollar donated ?</p>
<p>Though the sentence say millions are given to help the patient, we know very well government&#8217;s words have to be taken with grain of salt as this government is actually running Singapore Incorporated. Money is the objective not the nation judging from what we have seen.</p>
<p>It really shameful that the public has to scrutinise the government instead of government self-regulated itself. Uniquely Singapore.</p>
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		<title>By: vic</title>
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		<dc:creator>vic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;After watching a recent medical charity show on television, which had elderly Singaporeans pleading for donations saying that they have no money for medical fees and medicine, my friend’s sister, a 50 plus housewife, jumped from the 10th floor of her HDB flat, the following day.&quot;
no offense, but i don&#039;t see the link between how someone can jump after watching a tv show unless they were already depressed and how that has any impact on your article. using your friend&#039;s sister instead of a name really doesn&#039;t cut it in journalism. it would have far more impact merely just mentioning how elderly singaporeans need to plea for donations. while i applaud you for writing up on something that is very close to your heart and an article that is in general quite well written and researched, i cannot help but feel that a great disservice has been done by that line which just reminds one of the rumour mongering that people do in the market.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;After watching a recent medical charity show on television, which had elderly Singaporeans pleading for donations saying that they have no money for medical fees and medicine, my friend’s sister, a 50 plus housewife, jumped from the 10th floor of her HDB flat, the following day.&#8221;<br />
no offense, but i don&#8217;t see the link between how someone can jump after watching a tv show unless they were already depressed and how that has any impact on your article. using your friend&#8217;s sister instead of a name really doesn&#8217;t cut it in journalism. it would have far more impact merely just mentioning how elderly singaporeans need to plea for donations. while i applaud you for writing up on something that is very close to your heart and an article that is in general quite well written and researched, i cannot help but feel that a great disservice has been done by that line which just reminds one of the rumour mongering that people do in the market.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert HO</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert HO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RH:
1.  Almost EVERY flattering Fact or Statistic or Number favourable to LKY LHL PAP is massaged or even falsified to give the false impression that the govt is such a success, that every conceivable problem has been solved, that Singapore is indeed a paradise.  For example, GDP numbers have long been falsified -- indeed, GDP depends mostly on what you choose to include.  For example, about 2 weeks ago, the World Bank decided to choose slightly different criteria to China&#039;s GDP and came up with the astonishing figure that China&#039;s GDP was actually a whopping 40% LESS than reported over the years and decades!  As I wrote in my blog, GDP is a jabberwocky, not some precise measurement.  Which is why LKY LHL PAP peg their Performance Bonus of millions to the GDP jabberwocky.  So it can always be manipulated as high as they want.

2.  The corollary to the above is that UNflattering and UNfavourable Facts, Statistics and Numbers are secret and never reported or revealed, and our Good Times Media [GTM] never ask or probe.  When they do know, they also keep these Facts, Statistics and Number out of the public&#039;s eyeballs or reach, so that geniuses like Mr LEONG cannot draw the Truth and proper Conclusions out of them, or make it so difficult that most except the few Mr LEONGs in TOC and other blogs can make sense or horror out of it.  When even Tharman was charged and fined -- for just revealing flash estimates of the GDP [note how important the GDP number is to LKY LHL PAP!] slightly earlier than allowed, it shows how obsessed the govt is with looking good, how intent and determined to act and policise purely for cosmetic reasons only, and how resolutely they guard every Fact, Statistic and Number.  I wrote in my blog &quot;Every time LKY looks good, the Truth doesn&#039;t.&quot;  Never truer.

3.  In the early childhood of the Internet and all its promise and wonder of Information and Communication, all these retrograde, regressive and rearguard war against Information and Communication fails.  LKY LHL PAP loses.  Already.  Even more obviously and so in the coming years.  LKY&#039;s &quot;Golden Era&quot; will indeed happen, except not as he things -- as usual, he thinks wrong, proving yet again poverty in thought though billionaire in dollars.  To paraphrase my blog, LKY LHL PAP can afford every luxury, except the luxury of Principles.  Pragmatism is not a practice or ideology.  It is a total ABSENCE OF.  Absence of Principles, Absence of Honesty, Absence of All the Values that make for Honourable Public Life, that Defines Honour.  Since I began my Internettings and blogs, LKY LHL PAP have stopped calling themselves &#039;junzi&#039;.  Yet another Fact that has been buried together with all the unsavourable, unfavourable Facts, Statistics and Numbers of the LIEgime, whose central core is LIEs.  A LIEgime whose mantra is that Looking Good is Govt itself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RH:<br />
1.  Almost EVERY flattering Fact or Statistic or Number favourable to LKY LHL PAP is massaged or even falsified to give the false impression that the govt is such a success, that every conceivable problem has been solved, that Singapore is indeed a paradise.  For example, GDP numbers have long been falsified &#8212; indeed, GDP depends mostly on what you choose to include.  For example, about 2 weeks ago, the World Bank decided to choose slightly different criteria to China&#8217;s GDP and came up with the astonishing figure that China&#8217;s GDP was actually a whopping 40% LESS than reported over the years and decades!  As I wrote in my blog, GDP is a jabberwocky, not some precise measurement.  Which is why LKY LHL PAP peg their Performance Bonus of millions to the GDP jabberwocky.  So it can always be manipulated as high as they want.</p>
<p>2.  The corollary to the above is that UNflattering and UNfavourable Facts, Statistics and Numbers are secret and never reported or revealed, and our Good Times Media [GTM] never ask or probe.  When they do know, they also keep these Facts, Statistics and Number out of the public&#8217;s eyeballs or reach, so that geniuses like Mr LEONG cannot draw the Truth and proper Conclusions out of them, or make it so difficult that most except the few Mr LEONGs in TOC and other blogs can make sense or horror out of it.  When even Tharman was charged and fined &#8212; for just revealing flash estimates of the GDP [note how important the GDP number is to LKY LHL PAP!] slightly earlier than allowed, it shows how obsessed the govt is with looking good, how intent and determined to act and policise purely for cosmetic reasons only, and how resolutely they guard every Fact, Statistic and Number.  I wrote in my blog &#8220;Every time LKY looks good, the Truth doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;  Never truer.</p>
<p>3.  In the early childhood of the Internet and all its promise and wonder of Information and Communication, all these retrograde, regressive and rearguard war against Information and Communication fails.  LKY LHL PAP loses.  Already.  Even more obviously and so in the coming years.  LKY&#8217;s &#8220;Golden Era&#8221; will indeed happen, except not as he things &#8212; as usual, he thinks wrong, proving yet again poverty in thought though billionaire in dollars.  To paraphrase my blog, LKY LHL PAP can afford every luxury, except the luxury of Principles.  Pragmatism is not a practice or ideology.  It is a total ABSENCE OF.  Absence of Principles, Absence of Honesty, Absence of All the Values that make for Honourable Public Life, that Defines Honour.  Since I began my Internettings and blogs, LKY LHL PAP have stopped calling themselves &#8216;junzi&#8217;.  Yet another Fact that has been buried together with all the unsavourable, unfavourable Facts, Statistics and Numbers of the LIEgime, whose central core is LIEs.  A LIEgime whose mantra is that Looking Good is Govt itself.</p>
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		<title>By: SS Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>SS Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done Mr. Leong..  I admire your efforts in highlighting issues of interests and your volunteer work. Happy New Year to you !
“Record 301,000 needy patients get help from Medifund” (ST, Dec 4).
Last year, a record $ 39.6 million from Medifund was given to 20,000 to 30,000 patients who made a record 301,126 successful applications”.
Which is which? I am confused.
I agree that they must come clean with absolute transparency on who can get Medifund support.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done Mr. Leong..  I admire your efforts in highlighting issues of interests and your volunteer work. Happy New Year to you !<br />
“Record 301,000 needy patients get help from Medifund” (ST, Dec 4).<br />
Last year, a record $ 39.6 million from Medifund was given to 20,000 to 30,000 patients who made a record 301,126 successful applications”.<br />
Which is which? I am confused.<br />
I agree that they must come clean with absolute transparency on who can get Medifund support.</p>
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