Learning from Singapore's Experience to Build a Sustainable Healthcare System

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Radical solutions needed to address the woes besetting healthcare in Malaysia

MEDICAL insurance premiums have spiralled beyond control and if not much is done to reduce the premiums more people will opt out if it becomes unaffordable.

For a long time, private hospitals have been charging their patients way beyond what is needed to run a hospital efficiently and profitably. The government by being a bystander over this issue for decades has gradually let it get out of hand by taking only superficial measures.

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