>Britain should become more like Singapore and scrap the NHS healthcare model to boost economic growth and the quality of public services, a report published by a right-wing think tank has said.
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>Bryan Cheang, a Singaporean citizen and academic, argued in a report for the Adam Smith Institute that Singapore spends £3,500 less per person on social spending compared with the UK, yet outperforms Britain in health and education outcomes.
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>He recommended that the UK develop its own version of Singapore’s Central Provided Fund, its system of compulsory individual savings that can be used on healthcare, housing and retirement, which ensures that citizens directly bear some of the cost of public services.
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>Singapore’s post-independence leaders replaced the NHS-style healthcare model with a system based on market competition and choice. Singaporeans pay for healthcare costs out of their Central Provident Fund savings. Additional state top-ups are provided for those in need.
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>Cheang, assistant director at King’s College London’s Centre for the Study of Governance & Society, said: “Singapore presents a good lesson in fiscal responsibility and individual self-reliance, one that the UK and European countries sorely need to learn from.”
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>Louisa Clarence Smith, Chief Business Correspondant – The Times UK
We just need to stop benefits. If you’re on benefits for 6 months you lose it.
I propose the Adam Smith Institute fucks right off
No. You only get back a percentage of what you pay into it for healthcare, so if you are a low earner you get a low standard of care (or maybe a load of debt).
As a rule you should avoid taking any sort of advice from neoliberal think tank and lobbying groups as they are generally full of really unpleasant right wing shit.
The Adam Smith institute has to be one of the most ironically named Think Tanks due to how far it is from Adam Smith’s actual writings. It’s like they read the cliff notes for his books and went from there.
The only way this could happen would be through stealth. Any government proposing it outright would be brought down.
Aside from anything else, it seems overly complicated.
Typical that The Times, owned by Murdoch, is the paper that’s pushing this fucking piece of crap that’s designed to do nothing more than make the wealthy even richer while fucking over everyone else
So this model is a fuck ton better than the US model, which is presumably why they’re pitching this instead. However I’d still never vote for anyone advocating this over NHS.
Everyday in everyway they seek to make a shittier UK.
Why are these think tanks given the oxygen of publicity?
The push to manufacture consent of the privatisation of the NHS has been getting more overt over the last few months. From standing outside applauding to demonising the doctors and nurses. Sky news run at least one ‘ooo the nhs should be private’ article a week.
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>Britain should become more like Singapore and scrap the NHS healthcare model to boost economic growth and the quality of public services, a report published by a right-wing think tank has said.
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>Bryan Cheang, a Singaporean citizen and academic, argued in a report for the Adam Smith Institute that Singapore spends £3,500 less per person on social spending compared with the UK, yet outperforms Britain in health and education outcomes.
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>He recommended that the UK develop its own version of Singapore’s Central Provided Fund, its system of compulsory individual savings that can be used on healthcare, housing and retirement, which ensures that citizens directly bear some of the cost of public services.
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>Singapore’s post-independence leaders replaced the NHS-style healthcare model with a system based on market competition and choice. Singaporeans pay for healthcare costs out of their Central Provident Fund savings. Additional state top-ups are provided for those in need.
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>Cheang, assistant director at King’s College London’s Centre for the Study of Governance & Society, said: “Singapore presents a good lesson in fiscal responsibility and individual self-reliance, one that the UK and European countries sorely need to learn from.”
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>Louisa Clarence Smith, Chief Business Correspondant – The Times UK
We just need to stop benefits. If you’re on benefits for 6 months you lose it.
I propose the Adam Smith Institute fucks right off
[Central Provident Fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund)
No. You only get back a percentage of what you pay into it for healthcare, so if you are a low earner you get a low standard of care (or maybe a load of debt).
As a rule you should avoid taking any sort of advice from neoliberal think tank and lobbying groups as they are generally full of really unpleasant right wing shit.
The Adam Smith institute has to be one of the most ironically named Think Tanks due to how far it is from Adam Smith’s actual writings. It’s like they read the cliff notes for his books and went from there.
The only way this could happen would be through stealth. Any government proposing it outright would be brought down.
Aside from anything else, it seems overly complicated.
Typical that The Times, owned by Murdoch, is the paper that’s pushing this fucking piece of crap that’s designed to do nothing more than make the wealthy even richer while fucking over everyone else
So this model is a fuck ton better than the US model, which is presumably why they’re pitching this instead. However I’d still never vote for anyone advocating this over NHS.
Everyday in everyway they seek to make a shittier UK.
Why are these think tanks given the oxygen of publicity?
The push to manufacture consent of the privatisation of the NHS has been getting more overt over the last few months. From standing outside applauding to demonising the doctors and nurses. Sky news run at least one ‘ooo the nhs should be private’ article a week.