Singapore’s 4 Percent Health Care Solution

Longtime listeners -- not to mention my wife, Jody -- know that I’m a Singapore fetishist when it comes to public policy. (As Jody says, it’s rare for a husband to have a fetish that a wife can discuss in public...).

I had heard about Singapore’s remarkable accomplishments in education, housing and overall living standards years ago, but when I first heard that Singapore spent only 4% of GDP on health care, and had better outcomes than the US does at 18%, I was flabbergasted.