free medicals for all in HK - is this true?

[leetahbar]

MEDICAL FEES FOR THE SENIORS IN HONGKONG

THEREALSINGAPORE Fri, 12/28/2012 - 01:46









‘…in HK everybody enjoys virtually free medical benefits. This is especially worthwhile for seniors who have more needs to see a doctor. In HK, all government hospitals charge a maximum of only HK$100 = S$16 for the treatment of any disease inclusive of all medicines, regardless of how many times the patient has to come back to see the doctor. …’

This is an extract from an article by AFP on the benefits of growing old in Hongkong. One of the biggest bug bear of ageing is medical fee. And if I read the article right, ‘everybody enjoys virtually free medical benefits’ in HK, not free totally but the cost must be quite minimal compares to what Sinkies are paying in our public hospitals. And $16 for the seniors, inclusive of medicine is a steal. And there is no mean testing to see who gets what or how much difference must be the subsidies. They are not that mean and petty.

Hongkong is very similar in nature to Sin City in many ways, including standard of living, cost of living and even taxation. Why shouldn’t our govt use the HK medical model to structure our medical services, particularly the fees for citizens and senior citizens? Why is it that HK can afford such medical benefits for its citizens and we cannot despite the billions or maybe trillions of reserves that we boast about? And the subsidies for medical services must be quite enormous for the HK Govt to bear, and the best part, it is not going bankrupt for providing them.

In the same article it was suggested that the cost savings by the HK Govt is that they don’t pay their politicians and civil servants ‘out of this world’ salary. And they too are not corrupt, quite as corruption free as Sin Govt. Should Sin Govt learn from HK Govt or vice versa, to provide good quality medical services to the citizens at very reasonable cost, but not very affordable cost? Is the quality of the medical service in HK much lower than that in Sin or comparable while the cost to the HK people is really peanuts?

The most frightening thing in Sin today is to fall sick, young or old. Many will be facing bankruptcy even with Medisave and Medishield unless one is very well provided with private insurance to end up paying less than $10 for a major op.

Chua Chin Leng AKA Red Bean

http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com.au/

 

[leetahbar]

a standard consultation fee when visiting a polyclinic is billed as $10.50. that by the way is "subsidised" rate by the gov.

it takes hours b4 u get to see the dr which only takes less than 5 or 10mins consultation time.

the gov better re-defines the real meaning of "subsidy". by the way, they should also do the same to hdb pigeonholes which they brag as "subsidized" too. same goes to our tertiary education and etc.....in actual fact, they have blown up the figures then hypocritically brought it down to a more reasonable rate and openly bullshit to everyone that "it is subsidized rate".

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

That HK$100 is for hospitalization per day. But only apply for HK PR.

Goh Meng Seng

 

[Dinosaur]

And they too are not corrupt, quite as corruption free as Sin Govt.

Chua Chin Leng AKA Red Bean

Red Bean, you don't know how corrupt these Hongkies are. Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive, accepted bribes of all kinds from Hongkies and Chinese officials. He even obtained via corrupt means a very well-furnished apartment in Shenzhen. When found out, he shed crocodile tears before the media.

Albert Tang, one of the candidates in the running for the post of Chief Executive this year, was accused by both the media and Leung Cheung Ying, of building illegal structures at his residence.

The current Chief Executive, CY Leung, himself denied any knowledge of having illegal structures at his home for more than three months after the media snitched on him, despite the fact that he has been a professional land/property surveyor for the greater part of his career. Only very recently did he acknowledge the presence of those structures but he did not admit to being guilty.

 

[leetahbar]

the air feels freer in hk than in sg. probably the corruptive there is "constructive" than our very evasive "uncorruptibles" here. if constructive corruption could provide free gov medical care, why can't the evasive uncorruptibles do better?

 

[greedy and cunning]

Red Bean, you don't know how corrupt these Hongkies are. Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive, accepted bribes of all kinds from Hongkies and Chinese officials. He even obtained via corrupt means a very well-furnished apartment in Shenzhen. When found out, he shed crocodile tears before the media.

Albert Tang, one of the candidates in the running for the post of Chief Executive this year, was accused by both the media and Leung Cheung Ying, of building illegal structures at his residence.

The current Chief Executive, CY Leung, himself denied any knowledge of having illegal structures at his home for more than three months after the media snitched on him, despite the fact that he has been a professional land/property surveyor for the greater part of his career. Only very recently did he acknowledge the presence of those structures but he did not admit to being guilty.

donald duck accepted a disney mansion in shenzhen and cried when found out. at least that mansion is not funded by conning the hongkie and
he admited it is not proper.
every now and then , the great leeder of communist country called sillypore broadcasted propanganda to tell its slaves how righteous it is.
when caught accepting discount , it claimed there was nothing wrong, it was given automatically by the seller who trembled on hearing who was the buyer.

who cares what you built in your own house it does not affect others at all. so what's wrong with that.
did they find out that he using hongkie money to build it ?