Harvard Professor William Hsiao on effective reform
Posted by Don McCanne MD on Thursday, Nov 5, 2009This entry is from Dr. McCanne's Quote of the Day, a daily health policy update on the single-payer health care reform movement. The QotD is archived on PNHP's website.
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan
An interview of William Hsiao, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health
The New York Times
November 3, 2009Q. What’s the most important lesson that Americans can learn from the Taiwanese example?
A. You can have universal coverage and good quality health care while still managing to control costs. But you have to have a single-payer system to do it.
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health-care-abroad-taiwan/
William Hsiao, Ph.D.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/william-hsiao/
There is no person more qualified to discuss health system design than William Hsiao (see the link above for his qualifications).
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