COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore

2021: Singapore ceases to treat infected COVID-19 free of charge without vaccination

The Singapore government announced in early November 2021 that starting from December 8, payment of medical bills will be denied to those who "did not undergo vaccination of their own choice."

We must send this signal to convince everyone to get vaccinated if you have the right to do so, "said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung at a press conference.

According to data, Johns Hopkins University 82.47% of the population of Singapore are fully vaccinated. According to the analysis, in New York Times Singapore one of the best health systems in the world, based on private medical practice. Employees are also required to defer part of their wages to health savings accounts.

In Singapore, they stopped treating infected COVID-19 without vaccination for free

The government's decision to stop publicly funded treatment means that hospitals will now pay their own bills for unvaccinated people, who make up most of the new cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations in the city-state.

Treatment costs will still be "strongly supported and heavily subsidized," Ong said, although he added that "our hospitals prefer not to bill these patients at all." According to them, the government took on the full cost of insurance coverage in order to avoid financial considerations that exacerbate public uncertainty and concern when COVID-19 was a sudden and unfamiliar disease, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. Now unvaccinated people "disproportionately increase the burden on our medical resources.

Although the government will continue to fully cover the medical bills of patients who are not eligible for vaccination, from December 8 it will begin charging "unvaccinated of its own choice."^[1]

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