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Rules on cancer treatment financing in Singapore can be improved
Among other things, the Ministry of Health should relook rules on ‘off-label’ drugs.
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Waiting for the approval process to be completed could deprive patients of better, and in some cases life-saving, care.
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Some of the upcoming changes to financing cancer treatments here are good and should cut down needless expenditure.
Higher subsidies, raising the income level so more people qualify for such subsidies and negotiating with drug companies to reduce their prices are all moves in the right direction.
