Medical savings accounts: a core feature of Singapore's health care system |
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Authors: | W von Eiff T Massoro Y O Voo R Ziegenbein |
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Institution: | (1) Centrum für Krankenhaus-Management, Münster, Germany, DE;(2) University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Va., USA, US;(3) Ministry of Health, Singapore, SG |
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Abstract: | In 1984 Singapore adopted a system of Medisave accounts, individually owned accounts used to pay for many of the health care
expenditures that in Germany would normally be covered by the obligatory or private health insurance. The fact that people
are spending their own money rather than that of a third-party insurer has helped to curtail Singapore's health care costs,
which were about 2.6% of gross domestic product in 1999 (Germany: 10.5%). Even with these low expenditures, the income of
Singapore physicians is about the same in relation to average wages as physician income in Germany or the United States, and
patients have easy access to such technology as computerised axial tomography, organ transplants and bypass surgery.
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Keywords: | Financing of health provision Medical savings accounts Singapore |
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