
PAP Supporter: After seeing Angola & Congo, I’m thankful to PAP
Angola fought a bloody civil war from 1975 to 2002. A man called Pau King Liang, probably a staunch PAP supporter, wrote to the newspaper about how he was enlightened by a South African woman who was living in Singapore with her family. Pau was with a small Singapore delegation, some years ago, on a visit to Angola and Congo,...

It is the Govt who’ll benefit significantly from Budget 2013
Singapore’s 2013 budget was lauded by some as a “Robin Hood” budget, but the arguments are unconvincing. Who will benefit the most? It appears that through a range politically convenient and populist policies, the government itself will stand to benefit significantly from this budget. I have a few questions to ask on some...

新加坡医疗政策是德政还是暴政?
新加坡官方媒体撰文,颂扬人民行动党政府的医疗政策是德政,这种说法有多少真实性? 德政是指有仁德思维基础的政治措施,暴政是指残酷剥削与压迫人民的政治措施;换言之,以人为本,从人民利益的立场,去设定的医疗政策才符合德政的定义,反之,那就不是一项德政,更有甚者,从人民的疾病医疗中牟取金钱利润,那种德行就是典型的缺德暴政。 换个角度来说,免费医疗照顾,或者,只回收非固定医疗成本的政策,都可以属于德政一类;离开了这一个范畴,就很难在定义上界定为以人为本的政策思维。 新加坡的原有医疗公共服务在所谓的企业化私营模式的经营下,借口让消费者有更多的消费选择,改以市场经济的价格机制,来设定医疗的收费制度,另一方面,政府亦巧手制定了所谓的补助性方案,去补贴低收入人们的医疗开支。 市场经济的价格机制是包括了经营者的利润,所以人们支付的医疗费用是包括利润成分,因此,实际上,医疗已经成为一个可以牟利的商品经济。 如果政府的补贴只回扣了利润成分,则医疗收费还是包括了人们承担医疗基础建设的成本。医疗基础建设是国家开支预算的一个组成部分,是政府用来收取常年税务的基础,因此,如果医疗收费中包含了政府回收基础建设的开支,那么,政府不仅仅是从已经报销的开支中牟取利润,也在根本上违反了原本征税的意义。 公众对自己所支付的费用,和可以享有的补助计划下回扣的两者之间,是无法知悉医疗开支的实际数据,因为从账单上所能够知道的,只是政府回扣消费税...
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