Are you sure this is free market health care?

Singapore isn't a "free market" at all. They are more regulated than we are.

Does this sound like a free market system to anyone?

1 - Mandatory deductions from payroll to create a health savings account and services must be justified in front of a BUREAUCRATIC DEATH PANEL before you can deduct your own money .

2 - The government has a privately run insurance option which the government regulates costs and care (i.e. price fixing) and they compete with the private insurance option.

3 - In a government hospital, the government subsidizes 80% of the cost of care

4 - They offer a government-run insurance option in addition to price fixing a so-called "private" one.

5 - They offer a government safety net in certain cases

6 - Hospitals must publish prices for comparison shopping purposes

7 - It's been reported they do not approve the care from the deductions on their health savings account for the disabled and elderly that do not have life threatening situations.

It's really hard to keep prices down when the government fixes the price of an insurance option and then makes private insurers compete with it. People also do not seek treatment for basic illnesses that are not medically necessary to treat, because of the deduction from their account, actively discouraging people going for treatment for something like non-suicidal depression or ADHD or migraines.

And I wonder how they keep costs so low, even when compared to other government-run health care systems (except places like Sweden don't deny care to the disabled)?

I'm glad conservatives are on board for actual government rationing in the name of Social Darwinism; discouraging non-medically necessary treatment; price controls; a de facto public option ; government-subsidized care; and forcing you to hold a savings account.

So, this is free market health care? I think Adam Smith might disagree.