Posts under ‘Insurances’

Fifth in my series on National Healthcare System is the Swiss Healthcare System. It just went live on the Lighthouse Blog, and I’m sure you’ll find it very interesting. Especially if you are one of my Swiss readers – my analytics program tells me you are a few visiting form this lovely country
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After tackling the Australian Medicare System two month ago and the French Sécurité Sociale last month, here comes my piece on the British NHS.
I have to admit it was the most difficult one to summarize so far; it is the most integrated healthcare systems I’ve studied yet, its admin side is awfully messy, and its [...]

After tackling the Australian Medicare System last month, I started working on the French Sécurité Sociale. It took me a bit of time to do justice to the inner beauties and intricacies of the world’s best and most handsome (!) healthcare system; but I am now happy to report that the article is live, and [...]

In an article on the healthcare reforms in the US, Greg Mankiw ask the following question:
“Imagine that someone invented a pill even better than the one I take. Let’s call it the Dorian Gray pill, after the Oscar Wilde character. Every day that you take the Dorian Gray, you will not die, get sick, or [...]

With effect from 1 September 2009, the Singaporean Parliament amended the Insurance Act to provide a new framework for nominations of beneficiaries under an insurance policy. This mouthful of a sentence is an important piece of legislation for life policy holder as it will solve two serious problems.

Previously, when a policyholder denominated a spouse and/or [...]