By Nancy Remsen Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 29, 2010 MONTPELIER — The Health Care Reform Commission recommended Monday that the Legislature hire the Harvard economist who helped Taiwan revamp…
Private insurance system is the problem
…Canada, Taiwan and France — is not “politically doable.” Yet BusinessWeek’s May 17, 2005, poll showed “67% of all Americans think it’s a good idea to guarantee health care for…
More (or Less) on Reform of Health Care
…choices. What social insurance, including single-payer systems allow for is the sort of choices that really matter: of doctors and medical establishments (like Canada, France, Switzerland, and even Taiwan, have)….
Uwe Reinhardt on community rating and risk equalization in other nations
How the World Balances Health Care Risk
…continue to describe the health insurance systems of other European countries, or Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Australia or New Zealand. We would find that in none of these health systems…
Here Come the Apologists
Yes, This Health Care Bill Really is Worse Than Nothing
…the cost of health care and insure everyone. Like in Taiwan. But Reinhardt is thoroughly pessimistic the political movement that is necessary to bring about that kind of system can…
Study Canada, not Germany
…care needs go unmet, and costs are steadily rising, as is popular discontent. We should study the impressive achievements of publicly financed, privately delivered single-payer systems in Canada or Taiwan….
Single-payer supposition: Medicine should save lives
…care economist and architect of Taiwan’s popular single-payer health care system William Hsiao says, “You can have universal coverage and good quality health care while still managing to control costs….
U.S. must look for a health care system to cover everyone
…years of experience with Medicare. In the mid 1990s, when officials in Taiwan decided that their market-based health insurance system was failing, they looked at the experiences of other countries…
Bring on National Health Insurance
…health care from the government. So let’s get there on purpose. Taiwan did exactly that 11 years ago, switching from a system similar to that of the United States to…
Single-payer healthcare advocate Johnathon Ross M.D., M.P.H. takes a local look at the national HMO crisis
…uncovered. Yet, this has proven to be the case for every other industrial democracy. Recently, Taiwan made just such a switch and again proved it could be done. They covered…
U.S. Ranks 36th Out of 37 Nations on COVID-19 Mortality
…in all the countries studied except New Zealand, Taiwan, and Norway, where there was a gain in life expectancy in 2020. No evidence was found of a change in life…
Early pandemic health lessons
…system. China, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have been the most efficient at minimizing the health risks to their population and economy with a well-coordinated effort. (3) Changing our healthcare…