Monday, November 13, 2006

Why didn't I take the blue pill?

If you had taken the blue pill, you would have seen this and only this:

GDP Nominial (per capita) by Country


Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 Luxembourg: $66,463.78
#2 Norway: $54,467.23
#3 Switzerland: $47,999.07
#4 Ireland: $45,707.17
#5 Denmark: $44,742.82
#6 Iceland: $41,720.45
#7 United States: $39,452.74
#8 Sweden: $38,480.78
#9 Japan: $36,285.57
#10 Finland: $35,726.02
#11 Austria: $35,443.98
#12 United Kingdom: $35,421.29
#13 Netherlands: $35,183.76
#14 Belgium: $33,754.34
#15 France: $33,015.40
#16 Germany: $32,929.58
#17 Australia: $31,421.40
#18 San Marino: $30,470.91
#19 Canada: $29,866.30
#20 Italy: $28,781.68
#21 United Arab Emirates: $27,686.31
#22 Aruba: $26,199.59
#23 New Zealand: $24,705.58
#24 Spain: $24,576.53
#25 Singapore: $24,134.21

But, no, you just have to foolishly pick the red pill, don't you? tsk tsk. Now see what happened:

Total Expenditure on Health as % of GDP By Country

#149 Singapore: 4.3%
#150 Kyrgyzstan: 4.3%
#151 Burkina Faso: 4.3%
#152 Turkmenistan: 4.3%
#153 Gabon: 4.3%
#154 Fiji: 4.2%
#155 Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 4%
#156 Niger: 4%
#157 Mauritania: 3.9%
#158 Central African Republic: 3.9%
#159 Kuwait: 3.8%
#160 Vanuatu: 3.8%
#161 Malaysia: 3.8%
#162 Georgia: 3.8%
#163 Sri Lanka: 3.7%
#164 Azerbaijan: 3.7%
#165 Yemen: 3.7%
#166 Trinidad and Tobago: 3.7%
#167 Mauritius: 3.5%
#168 Kazakhstan: 3.5%
#169 Oman: 3.4%
#170 Libya: 3.3%
#171 Tajikistan: 3.3%
#172 Pakistan: 3.2%
#173 Indonesia: 3.2%
#174 Qatar: 3.1%
#175 Bangladesh: 3.1%
#176 United Arab Emirates: 3.1%
#177 Burundi: 3%
#178 Philippines: 2.9%
#179 Comoros: 2.9%
#180 Sierra Leone: 2.9%
#181 Laos: 2.9%
#182 Burma: 2.2%
#183 Liberia: 2.1%
#184 Madagascar: 2.1%
#185 Equatorial Guinea: 1.8%
#186 Iraq: 1.5%

..which revealed that your Matrix Master (MM) had spent more money per GDP on your health than the government of Krygyzstan, Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan, Gabon... even though its GDP per capita places it among the developed countries!!

Oh, why oh why, did you seek to be a free man in the free real world? Did you not know that reality is harsh and unbearable. Alas, this is only the beginning of our long journey, my friend. As time goes on, you will regret even more. Just as this poor man did...

Cypher: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill"?

4 Comments:

At Thursday, November 23, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

ohh I am soooo happy ! So happy !! that i am living in poverty, and feel such blissful enjoyment on an island country club !
so full bursting with glee that I could go on forev... hmph ? wats that, flashing ? Oh "take blue pill and replug Matrix Master charge every 15 mins or will revert to crash state"... ok !

 
At Thursday, April 05, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I m shock.. perhaps you could highlight where did the healthcare expenditure go to? Medical services could not have been so world-class if the figures are so low..

 
At Friday, April 06, 2007, Blogger The Human Battery said...

The expenditure went to defence (1/3 of GDP), to our foreign reserves (one of the highest per capita in the world, if I rem correctly), to GIC/Temasek holding and so on.

Medical services is indeed not world-class: there is a difference between quality and accessibility. Our quality is world-class for those who can afford it (we do have well-trained doctors), but our public health (accessibility) is no-class - not enough doctors (doctor-to-patient ratio way out of "class" compared to other developed countries), long waits at out-patient clinics and before surgical operations can be carried out, not enough beds at hospitals (resulting in waits of many hours before patients can be admitted - we read abt that in newspapers from time to time), public health care not subsidised enough and so on.

 
At Thursday, April 12, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

[[[not enough beds at hospitals]]]
I think Part of the reason WHY the bed at the hospitals is Not enough is because MOST People Have NO CHOICE in a way that if we want to deduct the medicals fees from CPF, We Have to Be Hospitalize. I mean for those patients that Just Need few different Body Checkup or other which is Not Necessarily to be hospitalize.
I believe there are people who don’t really want to be hospitalize but they Have TO Pay CASH (CANNOT Deduct fr CPF) if they don’t want to Stay there. But the amount for those checkup may come up to Thousands Dollars which is A BIG Sum for lower income families.

 

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