The estimates for pregnancy and delivery of a child ranges from a low of $4,000 to a high of $20,000. The VIP maternity package at Gleneagles Hospital’s new Tanglin Suite is priced at $12,998 for normal delivery (2 days) or $16,988 for Caesarean delivery (3 days). In 2012 1,739 babies were delivered at Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) with a 90th percentile bill size of $4,197 for an average stay of 1.9 days (Straightforward vaginal delivery no complications). Assuming a round number of $10,000 per baby brought into the world, $3.6 billion will easily pay for the birth of 360,000 babies.
So why didn't the good doctor who tells us he served national service by "saving lives of babies" propose free deliveries at public hospitals?
Instead Puthucheary, son of the Dominic Puthucheary rounded up in the treacherous Operation Cold Store of 2 February 1963, suggested commuters travel for free during off-peak hours. Apparently that's what they tried in Melbourne in 2008, letting passengers who arrive at their destination by 7 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, travel free. Not sure if the transport situation there is the same, but in Australia, babies delivered at public hospitals are still free of charge. You pay only if you opt for private.
Transport experts say dangling free travel may not have a significant impact in alleviating congestion. Lest we forget, the congestion came about when foreigners were brought in en masse supposedly to address the pathetic birthrate of Singapore babies. Instead of beating about the bush, these nattering nabobs of self-servitude should focus on rebuilding the Singapore core the right way.
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I totally support your focus on babies. So the baby bonus of $6000 is barely enough for KK delivery. What kind of baby BONUS is this? All the talk about supporting babies is just talk.
ReplyDeleteThe Traitors are only interested in solving one problem.
ReplyDeleteHow to get re-elected.
Anything else is just wayang.
You want to solve real problems?
Vote Opposition.
There really is no other choice.
The situation has deteriorated to this point.
Yes, 3,6 billion down the drain. No strings attached. Free money for business. Singaporeans, this is how PAP use your tax money. Pay themselves billions.
ReplyDeleteThe Traitors will subsidize & help businesses directly.
ReplyDeleteThey will never help & subsidize Singaporeans directly.
The 5 minute funny & entertaining video explains PAP's trickle down ideology:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/341481/july-28-2010/the-word---ownership-society
ST headline the other day says WCS will benefit 7 out of 10 Singaporeans. So, 70% of Singaporeans earn >$4K, no? We are among the richest countries in the orld by GDP per capita. That means top 30% must cream off a considerable amount.
ReplyDelete"Do you believe everything you read in the Straits Times"
DeletePM Lee Hsien Loong
http://www.pmo.gov.sg/content/pmosite/mediacentre/inthenews/primeminister/2011/April/How_opportunities_make_a_difference.html
If delivery of babies @ our public hospitals is free, I'm sure our PAP leaders will have another headeache because the Malays may procreate like there is no tommorrow.
ReplyDeleteAnd if their latest statement that the Malay population shall be maintained fairly constant @ 15% of our population is really the truth and nothing but the truth, does it also not mean that our total citizen population target will be at the mercy of the Malays procreation rate ?
So all those arguments about shortage of babies, ageing, provision of jobs, immigration, etc., as reasons for our desperate population growth becomes redundant because the need to maintain 15% constant Malay ratio ?
So does it not mean either someone is lying to us in broad daylight ?
Our malay compatriots are not any less capable in service industry than say pinoy labors. The only thing it has going for the latter group is that they are cheaper in price, and plentiful in supply.
DeleteWhich would you rather skill up in your own country for the long run?
Are our Malay parliamentarians selling out their brothers and sisters to maintain their ability to acquire further dignities?
DeleteSomeone has been lying to us all these years on many things. You know, I know and everybody knows. However, when lies can be contorted to be truths and we call them lies, we will land up being sued to our last penny. That is the reason no lies is provable in our courts. Unless you are on the right side.
ReplyDeleteHard truths are actually great lies on closer inspection.
DeleteBetween pleasing 1 million commuters versus 10,000 happy parents, which one is more populist and have wider and higher desired outcome?
ReplyDeleteAfter losing 1 GRC +1 SMC, the citizens are immediately threatened with 2 million of new populations. Imagine if they lose another GRC + SMCs in 2016? We can start embracing 9m populations. This entire white paper thrash has got desperation and kiasu and kiasi written all over it. Is never about dwindling and dying population, is been about dire politics.
this doctor is really a genius!!!
ReplyDeletehe understand the grassroot mentality very well ... the word "FREE" can move mountains in singapore
almost all will be rushing for free rides (personally know of many who will) .... no more congestion during "normal hours"
.... his brilliance came from seeing too many heads popping out from below?
"Instead Puthucheary, son of the Dominic Puthucheary rounded up in the treacherous Operation Cold Store of 2 February 1963, suggested commuters travel for free during off-peak hours."
ReplyDeleteIsn't this one of the 77 traitors who aye the toilet paper ? Wow. try to redeem himself wayangly by giving suggestion that is impossible in the world of PAP, and try to make himself look good. We all know this suggestion is all wayang since when this can be free ? We ask free transport for elderly, and reduced price fare for poly, and pappies will give all sort of nonsense to excuse that, and now traitor tell us travel for free ? Can't even do the basic thing right, and then want to go for radical suggestion. Only one word can describe this. WAYANG.
Where is the PAP attack dog ? Why didn't the dog bark him who pay for it ?
it is no diff from cannot walk want to run...now they are getting more ridiculous, leapfrogging into space technology and what nots when singapore has not even started in the bicycle technology
DeleteThis puthu guy is coming across as more ridiculous than some opposition politicians, in the same image as Harban Singh of old. Did any Singapore really ask for free transport? Why is he making such a ludicrous suggestion? Too much toddy, I suppose, is making him talk nonsense.
DeleteIn any case the knuckle-duster character is too old to give him some dusting, so he thinks he can get away with murder.
Talk about building a crutch mentality! This PAP government is a big pussy - pussilaminous to businesses. WCS and WIS are schemes that use tax-payers' money to subsidise businesses, as against a minimum wage. This government will bend over backwards to please the business community, and this has bred into business leaders an entitlement mentality that is so anathematical to the PAP ideology. The 3.6 billion could have been better spent.
ReplyDeleteWith such huge reserves of $258 billions Singapore can implement schemes to help those job taken by cheap foreign workers and pay them $1000 per month until they find a job, and implement minimum wages system? Which prevent companies from employing cheaper foreign workers to take over local jobs?
ReplyDeleteIf those who use cheap labour took away locals jobs want to leave by all means, Singapore got to give retrench benefits like the Nordic countries to tide over the difficult period, with their job taken by foreigners or foreign countries want to leave because they can't get cheaper foreign workers?
Implement minimum wages systems? So that today high cost of living can't live below the inflation level, which their wages depressed by cheaper foreign workers? Cheap foreign workers their standard of living at their home is much lower, so they can get lower pay, an uneven competition? It is worrying those older worker and later their children can't complete with those cheaper workers from third world countries, which got 2 billions of workers of in Asia?
Return their CPF at 55 as original conceived to those who get better returns from their own investment then getting around 3% in CPF?
Singapore can't always live on the past of cheap foreign workers, Singapore need to upgrade to a higher standard of living and move up to higher wages system for the low wages workers country, that really a first world country, not a first country with a third world wages systems? So that those jobs that local shun because of low pay, can be taken by locals slowly?
Singapore need to keep up its international standard like the Nordic, with high quality of life, low wages gap, high birth rate and comprehensive social programs?
New broom sweeps clean.
ReplyDeleteAfter 50 years.
It's time for a regime change.
Maybe they think changing from within will satisfy the masses. Singaporeans really do not want that. We all know that changing the packaging does not always result in better products. They may create a worse sceanario by short changing us in terms of content. Once bitten twice shy also applies.
DeleteThe Swiss Rethink Relationship With World’s Super-Rich
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnbc.com/id/100523684?__source=yahoo|related|story|text|&par=yahoo
Isn't it time Singaporeans rethink their relationship with PAP?
I really like the expression "nattering nabobs!" Nearly the whole House is full of them. Just throw a stone into the House and you will surely hit some. That's what we've been saying abt having more babies. If u really sincere and concern abt our low birth rates, just give every citizen free child birth delivery and pay every child maintenance till age 7 yrs, 12 yrs or 16 yrs progressing with his age in terms of amount. After all he will be paid peanuts when he serves NS subsequently. Instead they paid billions to prop up inefficient enterprises hopelessly addicted to cheap junk labour! It seems to help the citizens but is it really so? More to help those greedy enterprises if you look beyond all the propaganda. Really langgar!
ReplyDeleteExactly my take,
ReplyDeleteHttp://reddotsg.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/increasin-tfr-101/
This is an desperate move by PAP. Confusing and totally lack of directions. Sign of a failing organization. Remember, all these problems are started by none other than themselves. Now they start to find quick fix solutions and frankly there is none.
ReplyDeleteWill the devil change its evil ways? Not that I know of.
ReplyDeleteSo, do not read too much into what is happening inside and outside Parliament. Just continue reading some of the blogs, be enlightened and do the right thing in 2016. Forget about the MSM. The Shit Times is only fit for dog poo.