🇸🇬 Singapore · Healthcare
How the Singapore healthcare system works — public vs private care, eligibility, and costs for residents and visitors.
Singapore has a mixed system combining government subsidies, mandatory medical savings (MediSave), national catastrophic insurance (MediShield Life) and a safety net (MediFund) — but these schemes are for citizens and permanent residents only. Foreigners on work or other passes are not covered and rely on employer-provided or private insurance; the Ministry of Manpower sets minimum medical-insurance requirements for some pass holders.
- MediSave, MediShield Life and MediFund are for citizens and permanent residents only.
- Foreigners on work or other passes are not covered by these national schemes.
- Most rely on employer-provided group insurance or private health insurance.
- MOM sets a minimum medical-insurance requirement for Work Permit and S Pass holders.
Official authorities
- Ministry of Health — MediShield Life
Official national health-financing scheme (citizens/PRs).
- Ministry of Manpower (work-pass medical cover)
Medical-insurance requirements for pass holders.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Singapore Government — Singapore's integrated government services portal — unified Singpass identity login
- Immigration & Checkpoints Authority — Employment Pass, S Pass, Work Permit, PR and citizenship applications in Singapore
- Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore — Personal and corporate income tax, GST filing, and tax incentive lookup