{"id":193,"date":"2013-07-17T22:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/?p=193"},"modified":"2015-09-21T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:35:39","slug":"singapore-best-healthcare-system-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/index.php\/singapore-best-healthcare-system-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Best healthcare system &#8211; Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">While it&#8217;s easy to criticise your own and far away hills are greener, it is often posited that other countries have better healthcare models than Ireland: Holland, France, Canada and Finland are usually cited. But it seems Singapore wins hands down &#8211; a country never mentioned by the loud-mouthed &#8220;experts&#8221; who dominate our media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Financial Times journalist, Gillian Tett, gives her reasons based on her experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/c7e99970-ce3c-11e2-a13e-00144feab7de.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">here<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/c7e99970-ce3c-11e2-a13e-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XJaO0n6T\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">And <em>Affordable Excellence<\/em>: The Singapore Health Care Story: How to Create and Manage Sustainable Health Care Systems, a book on the Singapore health system by William Haseltine for the Brookings Institute, is <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/7cf7f736-df49-11e2-881f-00144feab7de.html#axzz2YOyA4iwo\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Or in PDF for FREE! <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/press\/books\/2013\/affordableexcellence\/affordableexcellencepdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/span><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/press\/books\/2013\/affordableexcellence\/affordableexcellencepdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Haseltine, former Harvard professor,\u00a0says Singapore has the best outcome at the best price &#8211; at less than half the price of western European countries, has good governance, makes long term plans and executes them with sensitivity to the realities. 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