Rude man spitting at commuters in bus interchange

By Terry Xu Post by Sia JianHe. A video depicting a disturbing…

Fair employment: One big shakespearean play?

By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Job ads: What’s fair…

Questionable increase of HDB’s deficit to $797m?

By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “HDB constructs more…

The National Service Survey – A Poll to Ponder, or Pander?

By Gangasudhan Ask anyone who deals with statistics or who has been…

Ngiam Tong Dow’s “fair comment”?

By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the articles “Ngiam Tong Dow says his recent…

Good Surveys, Bad Surveys: How to Tell the Difference

By Singapore Armchair Critic (Image by Andrew Low) Are you perturbed by…

Good principals for neighbourhood schools: Sir, please define “good”

By Howard Lee It is heartening to hear Education Minister Heng Swee…

Focus on Healthcare – Navigating between NHS, Obamacare and 3M

In part four of TOC’s Focus on Healthcare series, we took a…

Focus on Healthcare – England’s National Health Service

In this article, our foreign correspondent checks in on the UK’s national healthcare system, specifically the NHS in England. Described as “the largest and the oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world”, it strained under recent economic uncertainty, but have by and large retained its core principle. It also managed to retain citizen support, who are oddly no less critical of its financial viability.