To what extent has the Singapore government been able to balance the need to provide basic health care services to the people and avoid over-reliance on state welfare at the same time?
...will have the motivation to set up outlets in Singapore due to the tax incentives. More so ever, there is a trend in globalization. The more developed Singapore is, the MNCs have to pay a large amt of money, thus there is a trend of development where MNCs move from developed countries to developing countries. Even though the government wants to induce personal responsibility in Singaporeans, the government been able to balance the need to provide basic health care services to the people and avoid over-reliance on state welfare at the same time. The government has done so by implementing different schemes like the Medisave scheme and the Medishield scheme. The Medisave scheme is a compulsory savings scheme designed to help Singaporeans pay for their family members’ and their hospitalisation fees especially after retirement. The contributions range from 6% to 8% of a worker’s salary. The Medishield scheme is a voluntary scheme designed to help pay medical fees incurred by serious or prolonged illnesses such as cancer and kidney failure. It is an insurance scheme where members pay a small sum of money through their medisave. By doing so, the government has balanced the need to provide basic health care services to the people and avoid over-reliance on state welfare at the same time. To a small extent, no, the Singapore government has not always been able to balance the need to provide basic health care services to the people and avoid over-reliance on state welfare at the same time. In the 1960s, just after independence, there was rapid urbanisation and industralistion which resulted in much pollution. Thus resulted in the widespread of infectious diseases. The indiscriminate littering and improper disposal of rubbish worsened this. The government realized the importance of health care services and thus heavily subsidized basic health care services. The government was disorganized in the past, and freely gave sophisticated medical resources resulting in over usage and loss. At that time it was the people who benefited from it. The people were facing poverty. They were too poor to look after themselves. There was too little self reliance among the people in the 1960s. In c...