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Except for Singapore: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapores-health-care-so-cheap.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-

• fzeroracer 8y ago
  If you read the article, Singapore is far from a 'free market' and easily has more government oversight than here in America. They actually have public and private options competing for benefits, regulating salaries and hospitals and more. If you were to argue for a public option to health insurance or more regulations against hospitals, you'd be called a crazy socialist here.
• denzil_correa 8y ago
  Doesn't seem like it. > Initially, Singapore let hospitals compete more, believing that the free market would bring down costs. But when hospitals competed, they did so by buying new technology, offering expensive services, paying more for doctors, decreasing services to lower-class wards, and focusing more on A-class wards. This led to increased spending.
  • sct202 8y ago
    Sounds just like the US healthcare and education systems.
  • tathougies 8y ago
    hmm... increased spending does not mean higher costs. It could mean higher costs, or it could mean flat or declining costs and a lower profit margin, which is a good thing.