SINGAPORE: A"universal and permanent" healthcare package with"basic level of medical benefits" should be introduced instead of one-time packages like the Merdeka Package, Workers' Party chief Pritam Singh said in Parliament on Tuesday .
The 35-odd per cent increase in the NIRC from 2016"goes some way" to explain the healthy accumulated surpluses accrued to this term of Government from the opening of Parliament in 2016, Mr Singh said. "The additional subsidies for common illnesses and chronic conditions for outpatient care and meaningful discounts off subsidised bills at polyclinics and specialist outpatient clinics should be its central features," he added.
As such, the Government must be prepared to do more to support businesses as they go about redesigning jobs for older workers, offer more part-time, half-day or work from home opportunities for mothers, and help gig-economy workers. "During the course of his speech, Minister confirmed the Government’s intention to pursue a differentiated fiscal strategy – one for major infrastructure investment and another for recurrent social and security spending. But this strategy also implies that there is a limit to how much the current generation should pay for the benefit of our children and their children too," Mr Singh said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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