Our funny little country

You know my friends, I read with some sense of amusement at the news article of some of our elderly being sent to JB for care. Why??? Because it is so expensive in SG. Imagine, I have made a study of a few homes in SG and they are all around the 1.2k-1.6k ranger per mth. If I had a salary of only 3k, half of it would be spent on my energizer rabbit's care. (Actually I would be paying the same amount just to keep her alive now anyway)(She is playing mahjong almost every weekend and sometimes several times a weekend and if she wins, it is all fine and dandy, but if she loses then how???) Anyway, it is disappointing lor. The government thinks that we should be able to look after our own elderly, who are the founding citizens of our fair land. No little wonder since our reserves are not that much and losses recently are quite substantial.

However, the bane is with healthcare. Since we are a meritocratic society, if we merit something, then we get it. A normal home with an income of 5k will be comfortable. But if we have just one old demented energizer rabbit, we are screwed. She spends more than what we can earn, and if we were to put her in a home, she will cost as much as we earn. Why do we want to put her in a home??? If she starts to eat trash, put glue on her feet because it is itchy, do you think she should not be put into a facility where she can have 24hr care? I live on the 10th story.. if she stays at my place and she wants to go down... she may decide not to take the stairs. If she does that... heavens forbid, people might think that I was a bad son man... forcing my mom to suicide... when all that happened was she did not use her brain!!!

If she is sick and needs long term care... it comes out of our pockets.... We pay for almost everything. Of course the government says medicine is subsidised.... Has anyone tried the polyclinic lately??? Cheap but the lines are so long that you would most probably die by the time it comes to be your turn. Build more lah..... haizzzzzz....

Or if you need to go to hospital.... Want to stay in C class ward.. go for means test and if you are too rich to want a C class, you pay more.... Waaaaaaahhhh.... Want to save money also cannot... Build more facilities lah!!!!!! Then everyone has a choice mah.....

It is a sad truth lah... Sg is now too expensive to live and to die... And even if you are alive or dead... no one really cares.... I care and that is why everday, I am slowly dying... because I see those who I love slowly dying... My mom, my sis and so on.... Sometimes... I wish things were different. I also wished that things were more simple.... Haizzzzzz