Category Archives: MediShield Life mandatory medical insurance

A healthy population; Expand community healthier physical activities; Live and age well; Building more hospitals and clinics not the long-term solution; Rising cost of healthcare is a concern; Add reward element, increase incentive in the push for healthy living; Also: reward those who live healthy lifestyles; Successful ageing – Live and age well – ageing gracefully; How? Caring for the aged with low retirement CPF funds – retirement adequacy;

Posted on March 18, 2020 by tankoktim

  ===================== .   A healthy population will result in many benefits to the self and the society as a whole: higher productivity due to less down time; greater medical cost savings in hospitals and clinics; and less mental and … Continue reading →

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Diseases; Covid-19 virus; Let’s find a cure for HIV Aids..how? Still no cure in sight. My letter to BT in 1992, some 28 years ago; … We wait; Now 2020, mankind is affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic; What did Hippocrates said some 2400 years ago?

Posted on February 6, 2019 by tankoktim

. ====== Common cold, dengue fever, Ebola, AIDs, HIV, SARS, etc. There is no cure for the common cold.  And there is no cure yet for HIV. Now in 2020, mankind is affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Has medical science … Continue reading →

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2019 Budget – my 28 suggestions

Posted on January 10, 2019 by tankoktim

2019 Budget  – my 28 suggestions: I hope MOF Heng Swee Keat will include one or two of my suggestions in the 2019 Budget, which will be announced in Parliament by him on 18th Feb 2019. What will be the … Continue reading →

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CareShield Life from Nov 6, 2021; …inclusiveness and equality? Will CSL cove babies born blind or with congenital deformities? MOH has sent their letter dated 16th June 2023 to elderly Singaporeans inviting them to join CSL by 31st Dec 2023;

Posted on September 18, 2018 by tankoktim

========== . MOH has sent their letter of 16th June 2023. ref: CSLNTF026 to Singaporeans inviting all to join CareShield Life by 31st Dec 2023 to enjoy participation incentives of S$4000 over 10 years given by the Govt. Govt’s support … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life and palliative cover; Better late than never; Grateful for Govt’s compulsory medical health insurance for all; Level playing field at last, enhanced by Govt, two years of waiting after public feedback in 2018; Hospice palliative care is covered by MediShield Life wef 1st April, 2020; Next, CareShield Life? CPF Medisave? MediFund, will it be enhanced too?

Posted on September 5, 2018 by tankoktim

=========== . No worries… MediShield Life and MediFund… Who will bother to ask for MediFund 2022 statistics and account status in Parliament? ======= Forum: No one will be denied appropriate cancer care due to an inability to pay UPDATED 2 … Continue reading →

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Cashless; Paperless; The Govt has listened yet again; Four years of waiting; Grateful the Govt has upgraded the systems at the polyclinics – A paperless system – and pay electronically; Japan has the paperless system to cut waiting times at pharmacies; Now, ours too; What next?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by tankoktim

======== . Cashless and Paperless;  The cashless society.. a one card system. No card you cannot move around in society. You will become history. When? It is all about money. Cash only. Some retail shops accept only cash, and the … Continue reading →

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CPF Annual Statement – It shows more details the amounts given by the Government to each person;

Posted on February 10, 2016 by tankoktim

CPF…..it proves again that the Govt listens to public feedback. Prior to 2015, not many recipients were aware how much they had received as the Govt did not provide details in a summarised format at year end. I remember in … Continue reading →

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Integrated Plans; Panel of specialist doctors; Rising MSL premium; make premium affordable, how? 25,000 to pay higher MediShield Life premiums [universal coverage starts 1 Nov 2015]; How to keep premium from rising sharply for both the MSL and IP starting from 2021? Insurers will impose new conditions on existing IP policies;

Posted on September 22, 2015 by tankoktim

  =========== . Shifting…the goal posts…. It is all about money, and how not to lose any. ====================== . Integrated Shield Plan riders to offer at least double the cancer coverage of main policy Policyholders will also be covered for … Continue reading →

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Abandoned houses: PGs and MGs – ageing population; Make a Will? Make a Lasting power of attorney? Why? Lonely elderly man a dementia in nursing home, S$1m cash savings, no LPA; Fast ageing population and ageing problems of the elderly; Abandoned houses in Japan; In Singapore, some old folks died in loneliness, and their bodies were not found for months…; Ageism – negative attitudes towards the elderly;

Posted on August 26, 2015 by tankoktim

======== . Source: SBS News There are millions of empty homes in Japan, so one group is offering them to in need single mothers. . =============== . . In Singapore, will it be possible for Govt to allow VWOs [by … Continue reading →

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MediShield LIfe – do you have all the answers?

Posted on July 11, 2015 by tankoktim

MediShield Life: Answers to 101 frequently asked questions The link: http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/2015/medishield-faq/faq-index.html By Linette Lai in Straits Times MediShield Life, which replaces MediShield, will take effect later this year. The compulsory all-inclusive health insurance scheme provides lifetime coverage for all Singaporeans … Continue reading →

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Medical Science; What is the purpose of Drugs and Medicine? – Do not cherish it excessively; Medical treatment, Systems medicine: using casual therapy and symptomatic therapy;

Posted on May 21, 2015 by tankoktim

========== Is medicine deadly? What is the purpose of medicine in the lives of human beings? Why some medicine has the alphabet N or Z in its name? Where do words and languages stem from, the Origin? What is the … Continue reading →

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Retirement adequacy – a long-term concern? How to top-up CPF for Gig workers/the 20% lower-income groups? Will the Govt have the political will to have policies that stand in good stead for us to be an inclusive society? How to have socialist policies for the sake of Singaporeans’ well-being; All about money; More should be done when we are hit by an economic storm;

Posted on March 16, 2015 by tankoktim

========== . Retirement adequacy for the poor [the 250,000 or the 25% at the base of our society] must be one of the top social issues to be discussed and addressed. How it should be addressed and why? What are … Continue reading →

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Pioneer Generation medical and dental claims – possible loopholes; there are warning signs; Hope the Govt listens.

Posted on January 22, 2015 by tankoktim

PG claims…what are the possible loopholes for false claims….?” Sharing what I wrote to the MOH in Dec 2014: From: tan kok tim Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 6:38:21 PM To: MOH Kim Yong GAN (MOH), REACH (REACH), MOH QSM … Continue reading →

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50-year public infrastructures: To pay construction by taxation, loans or bonds? Should there be sinking funds for public infrastructures to pay for renovation and upgrading? Development economists to advise, should the people pay for the cost of state land owned by the Govt for the benefit of the people? Impact on rising prices of HDB public housing prices [due to cost of town centres, hawker centres, multi-storey carparks, not benefiting the poor; the schools, universities, hospitals, polyclinics, all on State Land;

Posted on January 20, 2015 by tankoktim

What is the root cause of rising cost of living?…It is rental. Should cost of State Land be viewed holistically? It is a subject for the learned economists and in particular those who wrote PhD thesis on development economics.  Let … Continue reading →

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CPF – what changes will be announced by PM Lee at the National Day Rally on 17th August 2014?

Posted on August 16, 2014 by tankoktim

Should we have a CPF – Hospital Trust? Public hospitals are short of beds, and the solution to contain medical costs is for the Govt to set up a CPF-Hospital Trust to encourage Singaporeans to fund it. This will give … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life – The Committee’s Report

Posted on July 9, 2014 by tankoktim

The link: https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/dam/moh_web/MediShieldLife/Others/Recommendations/MediShield_Life_Review_Committee_Report_Final.pdf The MediShield Life Review Committee Report did not disclose all the numbers on many key issues. Singaporeans can only guess what it is. For that reason, there is the article in ST on 7th July, “MediShield Life: … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life Review Committee – how to be truly compassionate? Not for terminally ill in hospice..

Posted on June 28, 2014 by tankoktim

What are the missing links in the report that would have made the Committee’s recommendations truly compassionate to meet the social policy objectives of the PAP Govt? ————- In Dec 2013, I wrote: “I hope the Govt will consider setting … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life – Cheaper cancer medication; Govt subsidies going hassle-free and automatic for MSL; More coverage and benefits in the revision of MSL in 2021; Cheap cancer drugs from 2022;

Posted on June 10, 2014 by tankoktim

===== . MediShield Life coverage enhanced for cancer treatment; to cover drug bills of nearly 90% of subsidised patients Spending on cancer drugs here has gone up at a compounded annual growth rate of 20 per cent.PHOTO: ST FILE Salma … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life – Hassle-Free and on automation mode

Posted on June 9, 2014 by tankoktim

Hassle-Free. It is long over due. I wish to commend the MediShield Life Committee for their recommendations especially making it hassle-free and automatic in Today’s  “Subsidies for MediShield Life premiums will be “hassle-free” and “automatic” – 9th June 2014.. I … Continue reading →

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MediShield Life, our expectations – in comparison, the Malaysian Govt gives free medical to Malaysians at public hospitals; and cash RM900 per quarter to Malaysians above 60 years.

Posted on March 7, 2014 by tankoktim

MediShield Life and Medical benefits.    Minister Chan Chun Sing has taken the stand that Singapore could be far ahead in generosity in giving benefits to our elderly Singaporeans.  The S$8 billion Pioneer Generation Fund speaks volume in what the Govt … Continue reading →

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