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=== Once again, Singapore is much better than Russia! ==
"To take a look at how and where such a minimal standard of welfare design has been implemented successfully, one need only look at the city-state of Singapore. The Singapore welfare system is considered one of the most successful by first-world standards. [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locations=SG-US-DE-NL-JP-FR-AU-KR&year_high_desc=true World Bank data] shows that Singapore’s government health expenditure in 2015 is only 4.3 percent of GDP, a small fraction in comparison to other first-world countries—16.9 percent in the US; 11 percent in France; 9.9 percent in the UK; 10.9 percent in Japan, and 7.1 percent in Korea—while achieving comparatively equal or better health outcomes of low infant mortality and higher life expectancies. While most of Europe, Scandinavia, and North America spend 30-40 percent of GDP on social welfare programs, Singapore spends less than half as much while maintaining similar levels of economic growth and a society relatively free of social problems."...
By compelling Singaporeans to save, welfare in Singapore has traditionally been internalized first to the individual and the family/grassroots level. This forms the crux of the government’s “Many Helping Hands” social policy where the role of the family and immediate community in welfare provision is emphasized over government-funded programs. Such a form of privatized charity is neither new nor unique, as a wealth of research shows how mutual aid societies predated modern welfare states in the 20th-century United States and the 19th-century United Kingdom.[https://fee.org/articles/what-america-could-learn-from-singapores-social-welfare-system/]
Singapore has the 2nd lowest infant mortality rate in the world - so it is much better than Russia in this respect as Russia has about a 400% higher infant mortality rate.[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison/]
In addition, Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world.[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country]
<big>'''Question:'''</big> If Russia's societal system is so good then why do Singaporeans live so much longer than Russians? The proof is in the pudding!
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