SINGAPORE - Healthcare spending has sometimes been compared to a balloon - squeeze it in one area and a bulge appears in another.
The analogy speaks to how difficult it is to rein in rising healthcare costs, a challenge that Singapore has become increasingly familiar with as its population greys.
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