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JOSEPHINE TEO: IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO LOVE SINGAPOREANS
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4 Nov 2014 - 10:50am
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AsiaOne reported that Members of Parliament said that the Pioneer Generation Package is “generous” and how they also gave suggestions to make the package better.
Parliament debated on the Bill to establish and administer the Pioneer Generation Package yesterday.
“We need to update and brief (frontline healthcare staff) so that they have a very good and in depth understanding of the utilisation processes,” Marine Parade GRC MP Fatimah Lateef said.
“These are the people who will be our ambassadors of the Pioneer Generation Package.
“The interaction they have with the pioneers will colour the perceptions of the pioneers about the package,” she added.
To that, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Josephine Teo said, “the CHAS GPs (General Practitioners) and subsidised SOCs (Specialist Outpatient Clinics) have all been provided collaterals such as standees and encouraged to display these collaterals prominently so pioneers can see clearly that benefits are available to them.”
Ms Teo is the Co-chair of the Pioneer Generation Taskforce
Ms Teo did not seem to address Ms Lateef’s concerns that frontline staff should be “briefed” but said that patients could refer to “collaterals” instead.
She felt that, “The important point is how pioneers can more easily identify the providers where pioneer benefits are available.”
It is not known if she explained how it would be made easier for “pioneers” to identify the providers.
Nominated MP Chia Yong Yong tabled an amendment to replace Clause 3 in the Bill.
She felt that the line which reads, “by providing to them who are now elderly (bold) and are or may be in need of (end bold) financial relief, assistance or other support,” means that the elderly who receive assistance will be subjected to means testing.
Referring to “and are or may be in need of financial relief,” she said that, “This phrase suggests that for a scheme to qualify for funding under the Pioneer Generation, the disbursement of moneys or provision of benefits to any pioneers must be subjected to means testing or differentiation on grounds of financial need.”
She suggested replacing the phrase with “pioneers”.
Me Teo countered, “Let me assure Ms Chia and members that Section 3 is an acknowledgement that our pioneers are likely to be less well-off and be in need of greater assistance.”
“It is meant to reflect a fact and not to signal the Government's intent to restrict pioneer benefits to the financially-needy. So I want to make that clarification.”
However, Ms Teo did agree with Ms Chia on something.
“She said, if I may quote: 'Loneliness is not a condition that the Government or VWO can relieve. Love is not something the Government or VWO can give' and she is very right,” Ms Teo said.
=> Did not Wooden say the FAP are the parents and SGs the children in one family? What does it make out of the parents who cannot give their children love?
“I also join her in calling on all Singaporeans to work together with the state to galvanise more efforts to provide the pioneers with a dignified twilight.”
It looks like the government does not think that it is its job to create policies and infrastructure to create a more conducive and protective environment for our elderly Singaporeans.
It is also perplexing why MPs would claim that the Pioneer Generation Package is “generous”.
Of the $8 billion set aside for the package, only $260 million will be used this year. The rest will be spread out across the next nine years.
The spending on the Pioneer Generation Package does not even constitute 5 percent of the government’s health expenditure this year.
Also, the government has increased the Medisave contribution that Singaporeans have to pay this year, which means that Singaporeans are expected to pay about another $1 billion into Medisave.
Equalled out, does this mean that Singaporeans will still have to pay more to the government that what the government spends for Singaporeans?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?193317-Josephine-teo-It-is-not-the-government-s-job-to-love-singaporeans&goto=newpost).
JOSEPHINE TEO: IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO LOVE SINGAPOREANS
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4 Nov 2014 - 10:50am
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AsiaOne reported that Members of Parliament said that the Pioneer Generation Package is “generous” and how they also gave suggestions to make the package better.
Parliament debated on the Bill to establish and administer the Pioneer Generation Package yesterday.
“We need to update and brief (frontline healthcare staff) so that they have a very good and in depth understanding of the utilisation processes,” Marine Parade GRC MP Fatimah Lateef said.
“These are the people who will be our ambassadors of the Pioneer Generation Package.
“The interaction they have with the pioneers will colour the perceptions of the pioneers about the package,” she added.
To that, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Josephine Teo said, “the CHAS GPs (General Practitioners) and subsidised SOCs (Specialist Outpatient Clinics) have all been provided collaterals such as standees and encouraged to display these collaterals prominently so pioneers can see clearly that benefits are available to them.”
Ms Teo is the Co-chair of the Pioneer Generation Taskforce
Ms Teo did not seem to address Ms Lateef’s concerns that frontline staff should be “briefed” but said that patients could refer to “collaterals” instead.
She felt that, “The important point is how pioneers can more easily identify the providers where pioneer benefits are available.”
It is not known if she explained how it would be made easier for “pioneers” to identify the providers.
Nominated MP Chia Yong Yong tabled an amendment to replace Clause 3 in the Bill.
She felt that the line which reads, “by providing to them who are now elderly (bold) and are or may be in need of (end bold) financial relief, assistance or other support,” means that the elderly who receive assistance will be subjected to means testing.
Referring to “and are or may be in need of financial relief,” she said that, “This phrase suggests that for a scheme to qualify for funding under the Pioneer Generation, the disbursement of moneys or provision of benefits to any pioneers must be subjected to means testing or differentiation on grounds of financial need.”
She suggested replacing the phrase with “pioneers”.
Me Teo countered, “Let me assure Ms Chia and members that Section 3 is an acknowledgement that our pioneers are likely to be less well-off and be in need of greater assistance.”
“It is meant to reflect a fact and not to signal the Government's intent to restrict pioneer benefits to the financially-needy. So I want to make that clarification.”
However, Ms Teo did agree with Ms Chia on something.
“She said, if I may quote: 'Loneliness is not a condition that the Government or VWO can relieve. Love is not something the Government or VWO can give' and she is very right,” Ms Teo said.
=> Did not Wooden say the FAP are the parents and SGs the children in one family? What does it make out of the parents who cannot give their children love?
“I also join her in calling on all Singaporeans to work together with the state to galvanise more efforts to provide the pioneers with a dignified twilight.”
It looks like the government does not think that it is its job to create policies and infrastructure to create a more conducive and protective environment for our elderly Singaporeans.
It is also perplexing why MPs would claim that the Pioneer Generation Package is “generous”.
Of the $8 billion set aside for the package, only $260 million will be used this year. The rest will be spread out across the next nine years.
The spending on the Pioneer Generation Package does not even constitute 5 percent of the government’s health expenditure this year.
Also, the government has increased the Medisave contribution that Singaporeans have to pay this year, which means that Singaporeans are expected to pay about another $1 billion into Medisave.
Equalled out, does this mean that Singaporeans will still have to pay more to the government that what the government spends for Singaporeans?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?193317-Josephine-teo-It-is-not-the-government-s-job-to-love-singaporeans&goto=newpost).