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No,my point is that as a small country especially like Singapore, it is easier/more-flexible to optimize healthcare etc comparing to US, it is not as diversifie
by ausjke 9y ago
No,my point is that as a small country especially like Singapore, it is easier/more-flexible to optimize healthcare etc comparing to US, it is not as diversified as US population and thus much simpler to manage/plan/organize/control etc. While it definitely is a good example, many scheme there might not work at a large scale.
- tormeh 9y agoPolitically, I guess it does. Half of the US would rebell if you tried to simply transplant the Singapore health care system to the US. The US is also more attractive for lobbyists because of its size. But economically it's obviously nonsense.
- greeneggs 9y agoThere are economic reasons why size matters. For example, Singapore is small enough that you can get to any hospital from anywhere. In many areas of the US, there are fewer accessible healthcare providers. (For example, less dense regions, or urban areas in which all the competing hospitals have merged.) Perhaps this doesn't matter if you want to set broad price controls or nationalize the entire industry. But under Obamacare, it has made insurers' lives more difficult.
- gnaritas 9y agoThe only really valid point there is the culture one, which is actually our problem and the reason we're not already using socialized medicine country wide. It would work fine, everyone would be better off, but half the country would object based on their values regardless of it helping them.
- princeb 9y ago> it is not as diversified Singapore is not only more diversified than the US, it is the most extreme case of religious diversity in the world [1] [1] http://www.pewforum.org/2014/04/04/global-religious-diversity/ http://www.pewforum.org/2014/04/04/global-religious-diversit...