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I refer to the article “Patient could not get place in SGH, hit with $78k bill” (Straits Times, Oct 11). It states that “Besides the request to help pay his bill of about $80,000, the family claims Mr Thomas Lukose, 55, could not get a place in a public hospital. The appeal on the website says: “We have been trying to... 

Mr Lim (not his real name) applied for a debt assistance scheme with a bank, when he received a letter inviting him to do so, under the recently implemented debt assistance scheme – following  the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) announcement earlier this year about the debt assistance scheme to help Singaporeans... 

My proposal to launch a class-action suit against the government has generated a tremendous amount of interest. As this is an unprecedented move, we should be mindful of pitfalls and temper our expectations but be resolute in our fight to regain what’s rightfully ours. Over many decades, we dug our own retirement grave...