HPB(MOH) should stop operating like a casino.
Worse, MOH should not be guilty of misleading/ deceptive advertising as well.
They claim that if I visit during 1st 3 days, '$80,000 worth of prizes await me'.
This HPB claim is as bogus as it is FALSE.
The total value of prizes given out over 3 days (based on HPB own valuation claims) is only worth $20,418, far from the $80,000 that HPB claimed (and most of the HPB valuations is also bogus/ already sold at very steep discounts in stores anyway).
Each participant is only allowed one mystery draw prize and the top prize is only $229 for the lucky dip and even for a top prize winner in every draw category, it is totally misleading and deceptive to tempt participants with any hope of winning $80,000 worth of prizes since that is a logical impossibility.
Many of the prizes being given out I believe are post season stocks due for clearence sales or the recycle bin anyway. It is doubtful if any of the prizes given out would fetch such valuation if sold brand new on sharing economy platforms like carousel etc.
Instead of being another government propaganda/ public lottery department to invent more lucky draws to entertain the masses, maybe MOH would achieve more mileage in promoting population health by studying lifestyle factors and outcomes which promote good health and provide rewards such as medishield-life rebates to that end/ just as A level examinations assess a student's efforts in JC and is a measure of how deserving he is for a job/ university place of his choice.
The SAF has a well established record of providing financial incentives for servicemen who take responsibility for their own fitness with a formal system of medical examination to ensure that all servicemen required to do IPPT are certified fit to do so, not least with a threadmill test (if indicated) and medical screenings for chronic disease beginning at 35 years, not unlike the Screen for Life program by MOH https://www.healthhub.sg/programmes/61/Screen_for_Life which is almost fully government sponsored. Fitness is a measure of personal effort to maintain personal health. Citizens who maintain good medical screening results deserve a national medishield-life discount and a further up to 30% discount if an IPPT like test produces good results.
To run healthcare by lottery is the sign that healthcare in Singapore is a joke and merely a balm of public entertainment or the stooge of private business interest. Such a healthcare system is doomed to fail because public lottery/ entertainment is all that it is capable of.
Just look at the mechanics of HPB lucky draws. One wonders if participants will feel more stressed that the HPB promise of the opportunity to win $80,000 was never ment to be fulfilled. One also wonders if HPB is trying to out do Singapore Pools to be Singapore's premier betting outlet. Maybe gambling and boisterous corporate trade fairs under the pretext of HPB healthy lifestyle carnivals are the panacea to exorbitant healthcare costs contributed no less than by exorbitant medishield-life premiums for which no healthy lifestyle adjustments would allow any citizen to avoid.
My advice to HPB: it isn't your job to out compete Singapore pools:
E.g. even seniors up to 79 years have inclusive IPPT test designed to assess their personal efforts at health maintenance. More national level efforts should be made to establish such proper national tests so that a fairer assessment of a person's responsibility for his own health can be determined and the appropriate discounts off medishield-life insurance be awarded:
Worse, MOH should not be guilty of misleading/ deceptive advertising as well.
They claim that if I visit during 1st 3 days, '$80,000 worth of prizes await me'.
This HPB claim is as bogus as it is FALSE.
The total value of prizes given out over 3 days (based on HPB own valuation claims) is only worth $20,418, far from the $80,000 that HPB claimed (and most of the HPB valuations is also bogus/ already sold at very steep discounts in stores anyway).
Each participant is only allowed one mystery draw prize and the top prize is only $229 for the lucky dip and even for a top prize winner in every draw category, it is totally misleading and deceptive to tempt participants with any hope of winning $80,000 worth of prizes since that is a logical impossibility.
Many of the prizes being given out I believe are post season stocks due for clearence sales or the recycle bin anyway. It is doubtful if any of the prizes given out would fetch such valuation if sold brand new on sharing economy platforms like carousel etc.
Instead of being another government propaganda/ public lottery department to invent more lucky draws to entertain the masses, maybe MOH would achieve more mileage in promoting population health by studying lifestyle factors and outcomes which promote good health and provide rewards such as medishield-life rebates to that end/ just as A level examinations assess a student's efforts in JC and is a measure of how deserving he is for a job/ university place of his choice.
The SAF has a well established record of providing financial incentives for servicemen who take responsibility for their own fitness with a formal system of medical examination to ensure that all servicemen required to do IPPT are certified fit to do so, not least with a threadmill test (if indicated) and medical screenings for chronic disease beginning at 35 years, not unlike the Screen for Life program by MOH https://www.healthhub.sg/programmes/61/Screen_for_Life which is almost fully government sponsored. Fitness is a measure of personal effort to maintain personal health. Citizens who maintain good medical screening results deserve a national medishield-life discount and a further up to 30% discount if an IPPT like test produces good results.
To run healthcare by lottery is the sign that healthcare in Singapore is a joke and merely a balm of public entertainment or the stooge of private business interest. Such a healthcare system is doomed to fail because public lottery/ entertainment is all that it is capable of.
Just look at the mechanics of HPB lucky draws. One wonders if participants will feel more stressed that the HPB promise of the opportunity to win $80,000 was never ment to be fulfilled. One also wonders if HPB is trying to out do Singapore Pools to be Singapore's premier betting outlet. Maybe gambling and boisterous corporate trade fairs under the pretext of HPB healthy lifestyle carnivals are the panacea to exorbitant healthcare costs contributed no less than by exorbitant medishield-life premiums for which no healthy lifestyle adjustments would allow any citizen to avoid.
My advice to HPB: it isn't your job to out compete Singapore pools:
E.g. even seniors up to 79 years have inclusive IPPT test designed to assess their personal efforts at health maintenance. More national level efforts should be made to establish such proper national tests so that a fairer assessment of a person's responsibility for his own health can be determined and the appropriate discounts off medishield-life insurance be awarded:
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