Health Minister Ong Ye Kung says new policies rethink long-standing assumptions about prevention, insurance coverage, and how Singapore manages chronic disease.

The health minister also described the recent announcements during the debate on his ministry’s budget as “breakthroughs” that relooked longstanding policy assumptions.

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