Choking from high medical fees


While patients complain of high medical fees, private hospitals and managed care organisations deny that they are responsible for the ballooning bills and doctors claim they are struggling to survive.

READING newspaper reports about doctors asking for higher fees, retiree P. S. Teh feels a sense of dismay. Her particular beef is with private healthcare where, she feels, high prices are already being charged.

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