‘Hard choices’ need to be made to keep healthcare spending sustainable: PM Lee

SINGAPORE: Hard choices will have to be made as the Government considers ways to fund future healthcare spending, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday .

Mr Lee was speaking at the opening ceremony of Sengkang General Hospital and Sengkang Community Hospital.Advertisement Singapore has been steadily building and expanding medical facilities across the island as part of the Healthcare 2020 Masterplan. In 2010, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital opened in the north, and in 2015 Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital opened in the west.The new hospitals in Sengkang will eventually add about 1,000 acute beds and 400 community beds to the national healthcare capacity.

This country is only 50yrs old and just 10yrs ago started to expand healthcare evenly after the health insurance fuck-up! Only 10yrs into building new facilities, already considered/confirmed “unsustainable”!!

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