This is real!
Guess where the arrow points to:
The answer is revealed here:
I was pretty stunned when I saw it :D Though apparently the town is named after a family there 800 years ago and the -ing is added to signify township in old German.
Went to listen to a lecture by President Brody on healthcare today, and he made me appreciate Singapore's system even more. I would say most problems that plague the US system did not apply to Singapore at all, and the problems that he listed are so deeply rooted and the inter-relationships between the various stakeholders are so complicated that he said that currently no one has any idea how to solve them.
At least Singapore's problems are solvable and there is one thing that we are definitely better: America still does not have an electronic medical record system. I was already playing around with it a few years back when I was serving as a medic - although PACES is not a very good system but it is powerful!
And Americans have this 'fear for socialised medicine'. Though my stand is, let's face it - healthcare is a service that everyone needs, it is expensive and it is only the state that has the financial power to help people pay for it. The government needs to have a role in healthcare to so that it can reach everyone - a free market model will not work because whether or not people can pay for it people will still need it - if not they'll die. Even in America the government is pumping in a lot of money into healthcare. Singapore's model is more like a hybrid, and it works for us... and I am happy with that :)
Labels: Philosophy and Religion, Random
