New Yorker on Singapore and Aung San Suu Kyi

[Confuseous]

It’s hard to imagine many Asian destinations that are more different from her homeland. While Transparency International rates Burma’s public sector the world’s fifth most corrupt, Singapore’s is the fifth least corrupt. Singapore has also become a stunning economic success: it has the world’s seventh-highest per-capita gross domestic product, more than sixty-one thousand dollars. Burma’s fourteen hundred dollars per capita, meanwhile, puts it at two hundred and fourth.

And then there’s Singapore’s stellar education system, which last year was rated the world’s fifth best. The list included the top forty nations, and Burma didn’t make the cut; in 2011, the government spent just .8 per cent of its gross domestic product on education, the world’s second lowest, after Equatorial Guinea, based on countries’ most recent available information. Singapore’s medical system is also top notch: in 2000, the U.N. said that it was the world’s sixth best, while Burma’s came in at a hundred and ninth.

- http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/singapore-myanmar-and-aung-san-suu-kyi.html

 

[johnny333]

.... Singapore’s medical system is also top notch: in 2000, the U.N. said that it was the world’s sixth best, while Burma’s came in at a hundred and ninth. ....

Spore's medical system is like the one in the US, not everyone can afford it

 

[greenies]

Spore's medical system is like the one in the US, not everyone can afford it

Yes, every time people come out to defend their policies such as affordable healthcare, affordable housing, affordable this that... It proves that things are not right, and they need hard defensive position.

Why can't they just admit that the healthcare cost here is expensive, and not affordable by ordinary citizens and part of the public hospital beds are allocated for foreign rich patients... etc.

Why can't they admit that the housing cost here is escalating into bubble state, and without the rich foreigners the property market could be well collapsed now...

 

[rushifa666]

what's the point of being even the best when a majority of the locals cannot afford it, which is the direction they are going? insurance will increase with that, its always in tandem. most people in america cannot afford insurance. when we reach that point what are we suppose to do then?

 

[singveld]

Spore's medical system is like the one in the US, not everyone can afford it

that why he is so happy with singapore medical system, it is so familiar to his broken one at home.