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Author: William A. Haseltine
ISBN : B00CDUS7WS
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This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare than any other high-income country. This is the first book to set out a comprehensive system-level description of healthcare in Singapore, with a view to understanding what can be learned from its unique system design and development path.
The lessons from Singapore will be of interest to those currently planning the future of healthcare in emerging economies, as well as those engaged in the urgent debates on healthcare in the wealthier countries faced with serious long-term challenges in healthcare financing. Policymakers, legislators, public health officials responsible for healthcare systems planning, finance and operations, as well as those working on healthcare issues in universities and think tanks should understand how the Singapore system works to achieve affordable excellence.
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- Print Length: 120 pages
- Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; 1 edition (April 15, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CDUS7WS
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Free Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Health System
Affordable Excellence (2013) by William Haseltine looks at a truly remarkable story in healthcare, namely that of the Singaporean Health Care System. Singapore has the equal fourth longest life expectancy in the world and yet spends only 4% of GDP on health care, making it only the 32nd highest spender on health care. Singapore's healthcare system is not experiencing rapidly rising costs that threaten the financial viability of the state as are most developed countries. How this is being done should be of critical importance to anyone interested in world affairs. This book covers the whole medical system in detail. It's not a light read but is fairly short.
Singaporeans have a system called Medisave where 6.5-9% of their income is put aside into a medical savings account. This can be used for their own health care or that of their immediate family. In addition the government provides catastrophic cover.
The government and private industry then provide health services and people are able to choose what sort of service they want but much of the money comes from their own Medisave account so people care about the cost of the service they are receiving. People also have means testing for the subsidy they get for care.
The end result of all this has been a medical system that is, in many ways, world leading. It's remarkable that no one has emulated this system unlike Singapore's compulsory savings system that has been copied by Australia.
The book looks at the end products of the system, how the payment system works, how costs are controlled, how it's financed, the history of the system, research done in Singapore and has a Q & A session with Singapore's Ministry of Health.
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