How refreshing--"a one-page, easy-to-read list of fees." It is simply incomprehensible why we can't mandate that every hospital, every physician, every healthcare participant provide such a fee schedule to every prospective patient. Modern, effective healthcare at one-third the cost...yes! The Singaporeans must be on to something.

while the information here is interesting and may be useful for comparisons with our own system, there's no sources to verify the presented facts, for example, that the "actual care is the same whether a patient ..." is in the $1438./night vs. $99./night room, as the hospital marketing director states. the "complexity" mentioned clearly raises our costs, but the differences between 3 million on a small island and 300 million spread over an enormous landscape isn't given much importance here.