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Health is not a commodity but a fundamental human need. Singapore’s healthcare system needs to re-modelled and financed holistically to achieve this policy objective. The SDP National Healthcare Plan: Caring For All Singaporeans addresses the issue of "affordability" - a key concern for many Singaporeans, as in many other... 

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... 

Someone once said that character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. By extension it also means doing the right thing without expecting a reward. When one expects to be rewarded for doing the right thing, it is not character. Which makes the latest measure announced by the Minister for Education Heng Swee Keat so...