The authors don’t bother to mention that two key features of Singapore’s system are (1) individual and family mandates and (2) a high degree of direct government intervention into health-care pricing:
“Singapore has a non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies and price controls. Singapore’s system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions to provide subsidies within a nationalized health insurance plan known as Medisave.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
But then, *any* rational system has “mandates”, otherwise you have (as currently in the US) lots of uninsured “free-riders” on everyone else’s charity and tax dollars.
“But then, *any* rational system has “mandates”, otherwise you have (as currently in the US) lots of uninsured “free-riders” on everyone else’s charity and tax dollars.”
That’s right; none of these solutions that presumes a work ethic have a chance in the US (even at the ballot box). We have multiple generations at this point that have never been issued a W-2 or 1099, and they and their bastard offspring have no intention of starting now. Any measure that attempts to curb their bennies are driven by the fact that “American-Americans” have learned the tricks and they’ve “walked off the job” as well...