This is how an elitist talk
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From Straits TImes forums 26 Feb 2007...
Thank docs who make themselves available
I REFER to the letter, 'Clinic charged $42 for consultation over CNY' by Mr Andrew Chia Teck Fatt (ST, Feb 23).
I do sympathise with Mr Chia, but I honestly feel he should not begrudge the fact that his grandmother was charged $42. In fact, he should be grateful to the doctor who made himself available on a public holiday when most clinics are closed.
If he had taken his grandmother to a public hospital, he would have had to pay a higher fee. Public hospitals charge no less than $70 per consultation. In addition, he would have had to wait at least a couple of hours to see a doctor.
I called a plumber recently to fix a leaking tap. He charged me $400 without batting an eyelid.
I called an electrician to fix a fuse box, and he charged me $600 without hesitation.
I called a roof contractor to fix a leaking roof. He sent a worker up to the roof with a pail of cement. The worker came down within five minutes and I had a $500 bill. I paid because it was after office hours and a public holiday.
Why do we complain when we pay $42 to the hardworking doctor who makes himself available on a public holiday? It's a pittance to say the least.
I believe the good doctor should have charged Mr Chia $100 for a consultation on a public holiday. And that, I feel, is still very modest.
Amy Ng Siok Im (Ms) -
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He got so much money can give me
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and this dear person makes it sound as tho its the people charging those wonderful amounts who are 'at fault'
what without batting an eyelid crap...
eh...just be straightforward and announce to the whole of singapore that you can offord to pay a few hundred to the plumber lah!!!!!
if its really too asspensive. u can always comprain to the company n get your marnee back... -
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you see ... it's letters like this one that get published in the forum pages that I wonder if the editors of ST actually look at the letters ....
or perhaps they are operating in the rarefied elite stratosphere that this actually makes sense to them ....
or perhaps it's all a bigger plot to bury caesar instead ... -
So... fixing a leaking tap costs $400?
Shucks man... did the plumber install a new gold-plated tap or something? -
Wow, wherever she's living, I don't want to be in it. Leaking taps, faulty fuse boxes and leaky roofs.
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I think it shows that the men in her house dunno how to do anything....
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What makes you think she is living there?Originally posted by ditzy:Wow, wherever she's living, I don't want to be in it. Leaking taps, faulty fuse boxes and leaky roofs.
For all you know, it could be rented out to 50 foreign workers. -
Nonono, it shows women are stupid, and they need men to do everything else in between.Originally posted by Hogzilla:I think it shows that the men in her house dunno how to do anything....
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Pillowielite tok..i mean , talk:
I am actually on MC today, but instead of resting, i came to sgforums. Now that i am here, you all are paying me less than my regular pay as i am late by an hour. Other forums pay the same price, now, just paying $42 to doctor saved your grandma. Do not complain so much and get cracking.
Pillowielite.
sound like elite or not?
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doesn't make the slightest sense.Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:Pillowielite tok..i mean , talk:
I am actually on MC today, but instead of resting, i came to sgforums. Now that i am here, you all are paying me less than my regular pay as i am late by an hour. Other forums pay the same price, now, just paying $42 to doctor saved your grandma. Do not complain so much and get cracking.
Pillowielite.
sound like elite or not? -
either way, these two people shows dat singaporean are childish
$42 dollars for seeing a doc during a public holiday is NOT expensive lo....knn, i last time already pay 38 bucks for seeing a doc on wed afternoon!, not hol, nth else (due to the kind of medicine i needed, dats why so expensive). i nvr even complained.
and 400 bucks for plumber, the way dat person wrote is plain dumb. either ST editor wans dat person to look like a fool by writing such stuff, or he simply doesnt care... -
Reminds me of the person who said in the ST forum with his letter that he want to see the GST up to 10% and the corporate tax down to 15%.
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me think this is true.Originally posted by hiphop2009:editor wans dat person to look like a fool by writing such stuff -
I read that one too!!! I was like:"li tao nao pai si boh???!?!"Originally posted by CoolMyth:Reminds me of the person who said in the ST forum with his letter that he want to see the GST up to 10% and the corporate tax down to 15%. -
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no, but the plumber and electrician took one look at the address and mentally marked up their asking prices by 300% ....Originally posted by fudgester:So... fixing a leaking tap costs $400?
Shucks man... did the plumber install a new gold-plated tap or something?
everyone loves taking money from the elites .... -
If that person is Bill Gill,
he dun even care about all the overcharge stuff
If a normal income person kena charged
too high , sure make noise one
and write in to watever to complain one lar
So wat if one eat a bowl of chicken rice..
eat finish thought actually is 2.50
then dun know CNY kena charge for another 50 cent
Then how?
Still must pay or else vomit all the chicken out
and return to the chicken rice stall owner ar -
But seriously, what was she thinking when she paid $400?Originally posted by Fatum:no, but the plumber and electrician took one look at the address and mentally marked up their asking prices by 300% ....
everyone loves taking money from the elites ....
I should think that a brand-new tap at a neighbourhood hardware store won't cost more than $20.
And adding perhaps another $40 for labour charges... that surely can't add up to $400, huh?
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Maybe That new tap was actually the golden tap previously ownedOriginally posted by fudgester:But seriously, what was she thinking when she paid $400?
I should think that a brand-new tap at a neighbourhood hardware store won't cost more than $20.
And adding perhaps another $40 for labour charges... that surely can't add up to $400, huh?
Or am I missing something here?
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wah contractors charge so much..
last time my home antenna toppled...tv no reception of coz..instead of calling anybody..me and my dad climb up to the roof..like stuntmen..without using any ladders or scaffolding...our house is 3 storey high btw..imagine how much the contractor will charge? confirm more then 500... -
er i think the main point is that companies (or the individual doctor) should be allowed to set their own prices. why is this even an issue? if there are others willing to offer the same service for less then by all means go to the fella.
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this is the difference btw the riches and the middle-income or low-income grp ppl.
riches are ignorant and are full of themselves. damn them.