Singapore an Interesting Case Study in Healthcare

Singapore has made it a point to guard against a glut of expensive technology, high-volume care, too-long hospital stays, and an excess of physicians and specialists. These reforms helped Singapore reduce its per capita health care spending from 1997 to 2001 by 13 percent—even as the United States increased its per capita health spending by 24 percent over this same period. Today Singapore spends one-seventh what the U.S. does per capita on health care.
The above excerpt is from a very good article on the Singapore system of health care. They do some things very well, altho there are some ways in which their society is different from ours. A major difference is that Singaporeans are on average much younger than Americans or Europeans. That figures into the demand for health care, surgery, and hospitalizations.
Read the whole article in Health Beat at http://www.healthbeatblog.org/2008/07/health-care-in.html#more

Kudos for a great article on world health care.