For others, like Madam Sumini Najiman, 56, the changes would mean that she could choose to go to a private clinic for coughs and colds.
"I don't go to private clinics because I'm scared it would be expensive," said Madam Sumini, who usually visits the polyclinic in Toa Payoh when she is feeling under the weather.
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