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Medical costs have gone up and so the government introduced the community health assist scheme (CHAS) for the lower and lower middle income group. Based on family income such Singaporeans are given an orange or a blue Chas card, blue more subsidy than orange.. Those carrying Chas cards are given a discount each time they visit... 

About $56 million was given to those who needed short to medium term assistance, an increase of 33 per cent from the year before. This amount went to about 26,000 households, an increase of 19 per cent. 72,000 needy families? We refer to the article “72,000 needy Singaporeans and families got ComCare assistance in 2013″... 

If I were the people featured in “To S’pore With Love” * and the film maker, I’d be sending flowers and fruit to Yaacob and Ms Koh Lin-Net the CEO of MDA, as a token of my appreciation, cause nothing could have created more interest in the film than banning it.  (To be pedantic, it seems the film has not technically...