…care (if the budget allows); there is language on retraining displaced administrative workers (p. 56); bulk purchasing of drugs and supplies; use of “smart card” technology as in Taiwan (p….
Ready for Single-Payer
…our current patchwork of private and public insurance companies. Momentum is building in favor of single-payer reform. Hsiao, known for developing Taiwan’s impressive universal healthcare system, advocates for single-payer in…
Vermont Gov. Proposes Single-Payer Health Plan
…already commissioned its Harvard economist William Hsiao, who helped design Taiwan’s single-payer system, along with MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and Vermont policy consultant Steve Kappel to provide recommendations on how…
Single-payer advances from Vermont to California to D.C.
…“Deadly Spin” author, former Cigna executive, on book tour 5. Kentucky honors MLK with single-payer forum 1. Harvard economist and architect of Taiwan’s single-payer health care system, William Hsiao, Ph.D.,…
Insurance Execs Not Happy with Hsiaoās Single Payer
…Taiwan. And now, he wants to do something similar in Vermont. Over the past couple of months, Hsiao has been working feverishly – with a team of 20 researchers –…
UPDATE ON SINGLE PAYER: Interview with Margaret Flowers, MD
…to design their health system. He has designed health systems for five countries, the most recent being the single payer system in Taiwan. The new governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin,…
Health system options more plentiful than imagined
…multitude of financing solutions, each of which provides universal access, better outcomes and lower cost. France uses employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Germany uses individually purchased insurance coverage. Taiwan uses a specific…
In Vermont, single-payer health care in a single state
…Taiwan’s single-payer system. Gruber, an M.I.T. economist, helped design Massachusetts’ near-universal health care system and the federal health care reform law itself. They’re on the team that the Vermont legislature…
State and national single-payer news, plus how to strengthen Medicare
…national levels. Vermont’s Health Care Reform Commission has just chosen Dr. William Hsiao, the architect of Taiwan‘s successful single-payer program, to do an economic impact study of three prospective models…
Nonprofit nursing homes provide better care, major study finds
For-profit homes faulted for lower staffing, higher rate of bedsores
…care per day if nonprofit institutions replaced for-profit nursing homes. While most of the data in the studies are from U.S. nursing homes, data from Canada and Taiwan were also…
Dr. Hsiao Lays the Groundwork for his Designs
…it has a health care system operating as a whole,” declared Dr. Hsiao. He said Taiwan reduced costs by 8 percent in the first year of its universal health care…
Vermont Joint Fiscal Committee approves single payer study
Vermont health reform panel recommends analyst
By Nancy Remsen Burlington Free Press June 29, 2010 The Health Care Reform Commission recommended Monday that the Legislature hire the Harvard economist who helped Taiwan revamp its health-care system…