…system of Canada, Taiwan and Scandinavian countries; and the not-for-profit multi-payer system of Germany and France. In socialized medical systems the population is insured through public funds obtained through an…
Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
Two leading reformers debate the role of private insurers
…of single-payer systems, not just Canada or England. For a while, Australia had single-payer, for instance, and Taiwan has a single-payer system. Richard? Richard Kirsch: Health Care for America Now’s…
Prospects rising for better health care delivery
…might be best to call it the Taiwan plan, because that nation implemented a similar single-payer program in 1995 after studying the health systems of industrial nations to find out…
Why Does U.S. Health Care Cost So Much? (Part IV: A Primer on Medicare)
…government-run, single-payer health insurance systems in other countries (e.g., Taiwan or Canada). Furthermore, in surveys of Americans aged 50 and over respondents expressed greater trust in Medicare as a source…
Health Reform via Guaranteed Choice
Examining Obama's health-care proposal
…proposal in Congress. Essentially, single-payer plans, operating in nations as diverse as Canada and Taiwan, provide health care to all citizens and permit them free choice of their doctors and…
We need a single payer
…education. By comparison, Canada spends 10 percent. Taiwan, which adopted a single-payer system in 1995 after a lot of shopping around, spends 6 percent of GDP on health care and…
Expanding healthcare, cutting costs
…Taiwan decided to overhaul its healthcare system, it chose a model that put the health of the Taiwanese people above the profits of insurance companies. Canada has had great success…
The Doctors' Revolt
…that essentially eliminates the central role of private insurers. Most industrial societies — including nations as diverse as Taiwan, France, and Canada — have adopted universal health systems that provide…
Many inconvenient truths on health care
…is turned away because of inability to pay as there is true universal coverage. In 1995, Taiwan changed from a U.S. type system in which only 60 percent of the…
Health bill will only entrench power of the insurance industry
…William Hsiao (the brain behind Taiwan’s single-payer system) argued, you can have universal coverage, lower costs, and improve the quality of care, but you need a single-payer system to achieve…
Access to medical care a basic human right
…basic human right. Nations recognizing this truth include Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and Taiwan. The United States is unique among…
Improved Medicare for all: the cure we need
…go. We need an improved Medicare for all. Other industrialized countries, from Taiwan to France, have taken this kind of approach, where health care is regarded as a human right…