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Healthcare costs

Opinion & Features

The Pfizer-Trump deal: A new chapter in drug pricing or political theatre?

"Singapore is a very difficult place to make money. Our main business is outside (the country), but we have done so much, learned so much. What we hope to do is bring the skill set and create (a similar model here),” says Perennial CEO Pua Seck Guan. 
Property

From China to Singapore: Perennial banks on eldercare for growth

Claims payouts is down by 42.1 per cent between 1 January 2025 and 30 June 2025, with the life insurance industry paying out S$6.35 billion to policyholders and beneficiaries.
Singapore

Singapore life insurance new business premiums surge 7.7% to nearly S$3 billion in H1 2025 while claims payouts fall 42%

The tender for the 100 square metre clinic space (about double the size of a typical clinic) at Bartley Beacon (pictured), a Build-to-Order project in the Bidadari housing estate, received 18 bids.
Singapore

MOH, HDB award S$18,000 bid to rent Bidadari clinic under pilot tender evaluation approach

Universal free health care at the point of use is politically sacrosanct in the UK, where the state-run NHS enjoys widespread popularity despite long waiting times.
International

Rich Britons may end up having to pay for the NHS, IMF warns

MOH is considering a new not-for-profit private hospital as another measure to combat overcharging by private hospitals.
Singapore

Possible new not-for-profit private hospital to combat overcharging: Health Minister Ong Ye Kung

Other insurers have not followed Great Eastern's move in suspending Mount Elizabeth hospitals from pre-authorisation.
Companies & Markets

Prudential, AIA still offering pre-authorisation at Mount Elizabeth hospitals despite Great Eastern’s shock move

Generic photo of elderly women in the park, retirement
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Weighing the cost of health cover in one’s senior years

Patients can get their scopes done within 36 hours at Curasia's centres.
Singapore

Curasia wants to be the ‘Grab’ of colorectal cancer detection

Eczema has been gaining in prevalence in Singapore over the last few years, as more patients become aware of the illness and look to treat the symptoms.
Opinion & Features
BRUNCH

Eczema is expanding in treatment forms – and price tags

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