Singapore International Medical Care is a cooperation plan between the government and practitioners initiated by the Ministry of Health of Singapore, aiming at strengthening Singapore's position as a leading international medical and health care center in Asia and a world-class advanced nursing center. In 2006, 4,654,380+million overseas patients came to Singapore for treatment.
Singapore's medical security system embodies the principles of fairness and efficiency, forms a diversified and reasonable financing mechanism, and pays attention to the different roles of the government and the market in the allocation of medical security resources. Government subsidies, medical savings, medical insurance and medical funds are combined.
Combine vertical self-accumulation with horizontal social security and the government's final guarantee for the poor, so that every Singaporean can get good basic medical services. The style of Singapore's medical system is very similar to that of Britain, which is rigorous and cautious. Public hospitals also bear important responsibilities, guarding the last level from students to doctors.
Generally speaking, the characteristics of medical care in Singapore are: there is no free medical care, the burden on the government is small, and the people need to bear part of the medical expenses themselves, and the efficiency is acceptable. The criticism of Singapore's medical care is that as a developed country, it does not provide free medical care like other developed countries (such as Britain).