Mr Tan
I am glad that you are standing for the PE. You will definitely get support as well as from my friends and relatives. I hope you will consider posting the following in your BLOG.
Health Subsidies extended to 710,000 - MOH REPORT
Based on the above announcement, the figures looks impressive. In reality how many will qualify earning household income of less than $1500. With this household income, can a family survive with children and elderly. This is one area the EP could ask the Minister of detailed breakdown of how the figures are derived and why the 'sandwiched class' are not taken care of.
Sometimes staff in civil service wants to look good and impressed the Minister with figures which could be inaccurate. Imagine a family with household income of eg $5,000 having a domestic helper and need to care for elderly. Is it enough? They do not even qualify for medifund etc. Maybe MOH reluctant to work with CPF and MCYS as caring for elderly involves tri-pitate parties.
The EP could ask the Minister how he plan to take care current elderly who incurred $500 or more expenses rather than impleent year or later. Such costs should be deductible from Medisave for the elderly. In this current climate, our EP need participative rather than a figure head. Look in the past 5 years, if the EP have highlighted the housing, trasnsport, medical concern to the ruling government, we need not be 'fire fighting' right now. All this is due to complacency in the system
Mr Tan, if you are elected I hope you will still be in touch with the people as you are the people's voice.
I believe the $1500 amount is not the total household income, but per capita income. This is high enough for many families (especially those with many children) to qualify.
ReplyDeleteMr Tan KL
ReplyDeleteOf the 4 hopefuls, you are the most people-focused one. And not just during election time but long before it.
Some establishment figures may call it "bowing to populist pressure and dangerous" but I think it is very necessary to address the many issues and concerns of ordinary folks. These issues have grown bigger and more serious during the last few years.
I hope you can mount a good campaign to win the election, although judging from past elections and majority voters mindset trends, the odds may not be in your favour.
besides the EP, maybe the worker party can ask or better still debate with the minister in parliament
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ReplyDeleteDear Anon.
Like you, I fully support Mr Tan's message and Presidential bid.
Please don't leave things to chance. Seek out votes for Mr Tan amongst your friends and family too.
Just think. If every one of Mr Tan's supporters can bring in just one additional vote, we can double his vote count.
To me, "populist" means "justice and equality for all".
As per the promise we make in our National Pledge to each other.