Government should introduce a permanent, universal healthcare package for seniors: Pritam Singh

SINGAPORE: A"universal and permanent" healthcare package with"basic level of medical benefits" should be introduced instead of one-time packages like the Merdeka Package, said Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh in Parliament on Tuesday .

The 35-odd per cent increase in the NIRC from 2016"goes some way" to explain the healthy accumulated surpluses accrued to this term of Government from the opening of Parliament in 2016, Mr Singh said. "The additional subsidies for common illnesses and chronic conditions for outpatient care and meaningful discounts off subsidised bills at polyclinics and specialist outpatient clinics should be its central features," he added.

"Future governments will be hard-pressed into denying future generations of this benefit, not just because of the political cost but also the sheer logic of the justification," Dr Goh said in Parliament. This is so that Singaporeans have the option of an additional source of supplementary income, he said."Of course, if there is no need for CPF Life payouts to act as supplementary income, seniors should have the option and be encouraged to leave their monies in their CPF account to accumulate interest and get larger payouts later," Dr Goh said.

This can be done through tax relief or rebates so that the economic transformation many businesses are undertaking is directly dovetailed to jobs for Singaporeans, Mr Singh said. READ: Budget 2019: Building a 'strong, united Singapore'; Merdeka Generation Package, healthcare take spotlight "My concern is that while we care about environmental resiliency, we may be doing this at the expense of economic resiliency," Mr Tan said.

...I'd love that, I'm gonna be a senior eventually. BUT... who pays for it? WP? .

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