REMEMBER SINGAPORE?

The Heritage Foundation ranks it #2 in the world on economic freedom.  What's surprising is Singapore's "statist" health care and retirement system, so if we grant Heritage wingnut credibility, then a "statist" system can co-exist with great economic freedom. 

What's a little more surprsing is that a hack at the National Review also recognizes that Singapore is "statist".  (h/t Andrew Sullivan)

Gauging Statism in the Health System
June 7, 2011 4:48 P.M.
By Reihan Salam
NRO

Singapore is another hybrid system, in which the state aggressively regulates prices, mandates transparency, and has created a mandatory systems of savings accounts that residents draw on for routine health expenditures and universal catastrophic coverage.