{"id":987522031,"date":"2021-04-20T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/government-accepts-medishield-life-councilsrecommendations-and-commits-s2-2-billion-for-premium-subsidies-and-support\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:26:48","slug":"government-accepts-medishield-life-councilsrecommendations-and-commits-s2-2-billion-for-premium-subsidies-and-support","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/government-accepts-medishield-life-councilsrecommendations-and-commits-s2-2-billion-for-premium-subsidies-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Government accepts Medishield Life Council\u2019sRecommendations and commits S$2.2 Billion for premium subsidies and support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore offers healthcare coverage to its entire population through Medisave,&nbsp;a personal savings account and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.sg\/cost-financing\/healthcare-schemes-subsidies\/medishield-life\">MediShield Life<\/a>,&nbsp;a low-cost medical insurance to help Singaporeans pay for large hospitalisation bills.&nbsp;To ensure continued healthcare coverage to all its citizens through Medishield Life, the Singapore government is planning to use S$2.2bn over the next three years to waive off premiums payments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This includes deferring premium payments for citizens who do not&nbsp;have&nbsp;sufficient MediSave balances, till 31 December 2021. The Government will also enhance the annual MediSave top-ups for Pioneer Generation seniors (those born before 31 December 1949).&nbsp;There are&nbsp;Other recommendations of the Council accepted by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, the new MediShield Life and MediSave&nbsp;initiatives are expected to&nbsp;lower out-of-pocket costs for patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/money\/3-things-know-about-medishield-life-premiums-coverage-changes-2021\">3 things to know about MediShield Life premiums &amp; coverage changes in 2021.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To know more details read the original publication on the page of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.sg\/news-highlights\/details\/government-accepts-medishield-life-council-s-recommendations-and-commits-2.2-billion-for-premium-subsidies-and-support\/\"> the Ministry of Health, Singapore here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/healthcaresuccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_1408422842-2.jpg\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the public health insurance system in Singapore? Please let us know in the comment section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore offers healthcare coverage to its entire population through Medisave,&nbsp;a personal savings account and MediShield Life,&nbsp;a low-cost medical insurance to help Singaporeans pay for large hospitalisation bills.&nbsp;To ensure continued healthcare coverage to all its citizens through Medishield Life, the Singapore government is planning to use S$2.2bn over the next three years to waive off premiums&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[127],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}