Medical savings accounts: lessons from Singapore.

Positive experience with medical savings accounts in Singapore.

Behind the ideology and theory: what is the empirical evidence for medical savings accounts?

Singapore’s Medisave scheme has attracted widespread interest around the globe, due to its innovative ideas and the salesmanship of Singapore’s leaders (Kwa 1994; Nichols, Prescott, and Phua 1997; Phua 1997). While countries as different as the United States, South Africa, and China have adopted some of the core ideas of Medisave, its impacts have not been critically examined. The essay “Medica...

Can health care financing policy be emulated? The Singaporean medical savings accounts model and its Shanghai replica.

BACKGROUND Each nation's government is searching for a cost-effective health care system. Some nations are developing their health care financing methods through gradual evolution of the existing ones, and others are trying to adopt other nations' successful schemes as their own financing strategies. RESULTS The Singaporean government seems able to finance its nation's health care with a very...

Medical Savings Accounts in publicly funded health care systems: enthusiasm versus evidence.

Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) have been suggested as a possible solution to Canada's health care funding woes. This approach is intended to reduce demand for health services by making individuals financially responsible for their pattern of consumption. MSAs may have appeal in the private insurance industry. A review of the scant literature on the experience in the public systems of Singapore...

SARS--lessons from two Singapore General Hospital cases.

Two cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that occurred in Singapore General Hospital are described. The lessons learnt are outlined.