What Singapore Can Teach the White House

Wall Street Journal by William McGurn | Oct. 20, 2009 (Opinion)

Its health care is first class, cheap and market-driven.

Dr. Yap is referring to the higher costs that come from an American system that depends on regulation and oversight to accomplish what Singapore tries to do with competition and choice. At the Raffles lounge for international patients, he shows me an example of the latter. It's a one-page, easy-to-read list of fees. Full Story »

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Oct. 21, 2009

while the information here is interesting and may be useful for comparisons with our own system, there's no sources to verify the presented facts, for example, that the "actual care is the same whether a patient ..." is in the $1438./night vs. $99./night room, as the hospital marketing director states. the "complexity" mentioned clearly raises our costs, but the differences between 3 million on a small island and 300 million spread over an enormous landscape isn't given much importance here.