Should the country that has the best healthcare system in the world, be considered a role model for the United states?

Muhammad Luqman
English 110

                         Should the country that has the best healthcare system in the world, be considered a role model for the United states?

         
                  It is not possible to live in the US and not listen to the on-going debates about Health Care reform and how public is struggling to get health care at an affordable price. Singapore, however, has a completely different health care system. Singapore has the lowest fertility rate in the world, have the fourth largest life expectancy in the world ,have medical facilities that are among the best in the world, residents are offered 1Gbit/s that has created 80,000 jobs in 2006-yet they are ranked the least happy people in the world by the Gallup report and also the least emotional.

               This study was very interesting to me, before researching Singapore, i thought that since Singapore has world class health care and very low crime rate (and great food), they would be very happy people. But as the saying goes- money can't buy happiness. Economists in the United States have said that money only affects happiness when making up to $75,000 a year and the average Singaporean makes less money than an average citizen in Norway or Switzerland- both of these countries are no where as rich as Singapore. And as you might expect, wearing the hat for being "one of the richest countries in the world" does not actually make a poor Singaporean any happy or any richer.
                 Now the interesting point comes, does Singapore try to change up the way the country works to make their average citizens happy or just let everything be the way it is like status Quo. What is more important for Singapore, sustain in the world with world class economy and be considered "one of the best" by outsiders. Or let the other two pillars of sustainability social equity (Singapore has one of the worst social equalities in the world beaten by Hong Kong) and environment take its toll like before. Judging right now, economy is considered the most important for Singapore-by its government-not by its people.