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        "id": 1130404,
        "msgid": "spore-to-revamp-health-policy-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-09-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "S'pore to revamp health policy",
        "author": null,
        "source": "DPA",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "S'pore to revamp health policy SINGAPORE: Foreign workers will no longer be treated at polyclinics and government subsidies for their hospital care may also be withdrawn under plans published on Monday to ease overcrowding. The more than 600,000 foreign workers in Singapore make about 200,000 visits to polyclinics every year, paying the same 8- Singapore-dollar (US$4.84) consultation fee and receiving the same subsidized drugs as Singaporeans.",
        "content": "<p>S'pore to revamp health policy<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Foreign workers will no longer be treated at<br>\npolyclinics and government subsidies for their hospital care may<br>\nalso be withdrawn under plans published on Monday to ease<br>\novercrowding.<\/p>\n<p>The more than 600,000 foreign workers in Singapore make about<br>\n200,000 visits to polyclinics every year, paying the same 8-<br>\nSingapore-dollar (US$4.84) consultation fee and receiving the<br>\nsame subsidized drugs as Singaporeans.<\/p>\n<p>Filipinos, Indonesians, Thais, Malaysians, Indians, Sri<br>\nLankans and Bangladeshis are among Asians working in the city-<br>\nstate, primarily in the construction sector or as maids.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that the polyclinic visits<br>\nwill stop before the end of this year and that workers can go to<br>\nclinics run by general practitioners' instead.<\/p>\n<p>Their fees range from 20 Singapore dollars (US$12) to 50<br>\nSingapore dollars (US$30) including medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Withdrawing the hospital subsidy is more complex, with amounts<br>\npaid much larger.<\/p>\n<p>\"The easiest way to organize it is to make medical insurance<br>\ncompulsory for all foreign workers,\" The Straits Times quoted<br>\nKhaw as saying. -- DPA<\/p>",
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