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    Tharman : 1K income can buy HDB??

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    • R Offline
      raysusan
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      Funz. Please enlighten us how can that be done

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        Emelyn
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        Funz:
        limlim:

        [quote=\"Funz\"]
        He said he paid $8. Not that unbelievable.

        My dad paid less then $30 for his triple bypass. He had his choice of surgeons and stayed in an A class ward.

        Just buy a $500/mth premium insurance scheme with hospitalisation plan..

        The surgery can even be FOC..

        Can peasants afford or willing to pay for that kind of premium hospitalisation plans? If you're not sick or require medical treatment, the money is down the drain.

        If no insurance related plan.. the $8 is a joke.. really..

        Nope, not insurance.

        And there are more people I know who have that kind of benefits.[/quote]Are you refering to those under CSC Medical Scheme ? Or was it called MSO ?
        If yes, my dad has it. And his medical bills are covered by govt. He used to be a civil servant. I believe there is no longer such a medical scheme. Maybe only for \"selected\" groups of people. :evil:

        If you are in private sector, there is no such benefit.

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          Interested
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          Funz:
          raysusan:

          last year some one said $8 can do a bypass surgery

          this year $1k can buy HDB

          :faint: .......

          He said he paid $8. Not that unbelievable.

          My dad paid less then $30 for his triple bypass. He had his choice of surgeons and stayed in an A class ward.

          Just buy a $500/mth premium insurance scheme with hospitalisation plan..

          The surgery can even be FOC..

          Can peasants afford or willing to pay for that kind of premium hospitalisation plans? If you're not sick or require medical treatment, the money is down the drain.

          If no insurance related plan.. the $8 is a joke.. really..[/quote]

          Nope, not insurance.

          And there are more people I know who have that kind of benefits.[/quote]

          Those under pension...yes possible...but these ppl should be about 70 plus by now...they still can get :moneyflies: :moneyflies: monthly....for our generation not possible lah

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            Daddy D
            last edited by

            Those pension scheme civil servants... Dun compare lah... Elite minority...


            The 2-rm hdb... How many eligible and benefitted from the subsidies? Also not majority...

            The rest who dun qualify one... Must catch up?
            :?

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              Funz
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              Yup, it is pension. In any case this $8 medical bill is a bit :offtopic: here.


              Just trying to say, it may not be something that is available to all, does not mean that it does not exist. Yes, it smarts that someone who could well afford to pay $800K for his surgery is paying only $8 and happily announcing to everyone. And no it is no longer available now but I am still benefitting from it as I don't have to worry about my parents' medical bills.

              Likewise, this $1k/mth being able to afford a flat may seem like a joke but that does not mean it is not possible. It is being made possible just that most of us here do not fall into that bracket and thus will not experience it.

              Why be so quick to call everything that the govt is trying to roll out a joke, or lame or a smoke screen?

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                vicki
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                If somebody is nice enuff to work out the sums for this, pls share…


                i am really curious numerically how this all works + the day to day expenses of the family.

                Know someone (unmarried) who earns just a shave off $1k (and staying with parents’ hse) and that person is already struggling with day to day needs…

                I could probably share with him the new policy…

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                  Daddy D
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                  Funz:

                  Why be so quick to call everything that the govt is trying to roll out a joke, or lame or a smoke screen?
                  For him to quote this \"1K can buy HDB\" example to imply that all HDB is affordable... Is like u quote this $30 bill but omit the pension thingy...
                  We all know better right?
                  Not smoke then I dunno what it is...
                  🦆 :siam:

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                    vicki
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                    raysusan:
                    last year some one said $8 can do a bypass surgery

                    this year $1k can buy HDB

                    :faint: .......
                    Yah lor - things in SG sooooo cheap....

                    Then dunno why when they were talking abt Ministerial paycut - there was so much fuss...

                    Cheap to live in SG mah rite? :evil: :evil:

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                      vicki
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                      Daddy 😧
                      Funz:


                      Why be so quick to call everything that the govt is trying to roll out a joke, or lame or a smoke screen?

                      For him to quote this \"1K can buy HDB\" example to imply that all HDB is affordable... Is like u quote this $30 bill but omit the pension thingy...
                      We all know better right?
                      Not smoke then I dunno what it is...
                      🦆 :siam:

                      err... called 'half truth' or 'white lies'?

                      :siam:

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                        1amber
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                        vicki:
                        raysusan:

                        last year some one said $8 can do a bypass surgery

                        this year $1k can buy HDB

                        :faint: .......

                        Yah lor - things in SG sooooo cheap....

                        Then dunno why when they were talking abt Ministerial paycut - there was so much fuss...

                        Cheap to live in SG mah rite? :evil: :evil:

                        Pay them so much and they come up with such crap. I'd rather put in some monkeys and feed them peanuts. At least they dun suka suka send warning letters and threaten to sue :evil: :evil:

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