…in which single payer would strengthen the general economy. Indeed, the thriving economy of Taiwan adopted single payer in the 1990s. We saw single payer support from a conservative acquaintance,…
‘Out in the Cold:’ America’s deadly un-insurance problem
…situation and to prevent person-to-person spread. The country which did the best in the pandemic is Taiwan. They have universal health insurance and also a really good public health data…
PNHP Newsletter: Summer 2023
Table of contents Click the links below to jump to different sections of the newsletter. To view a PDF version of the shorter print edition of the newsletter, click HERE….
Dr. George Bohmfalk responds to single-payer criticism
…shuffling that do not exist in countries with rational systems. While there’s little chance of our ever-matching Taiwan’s 1.6% overhead, we should be able to halve ours with single-payer, saving…
First Single-Payer System Advances in Vermont Legislature
…Vermont — he helped design the single-payer healthcare system in Taiwan. In this country, and particularly in its medical circles, he is best known for developing the Resource-Based Relative Value…
Dr. James Kahn on “The Real News Network”
…COVID-19, and pushed back on the notion that single payer “doesn’t work.” Dr. Kahn pointed to the pandemic response in Taiwan and South Korea as examples of how national health…
The truth behind the lies about Medicare for all
…in other nations, such as Canada, Taiwan, and Australia show that it is possible to provide high quality for everyone at about one-half the cost, per capita, that the U….
Testimony by Dr. Johnathon S Ross, Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program in Support of HR 676
…every other industrial democracy. Recently, Taiwan made just such a switch and again proved it could be done. They covered everyone with little increase in cost. On the other hand,…
National Health Insurance Is the Obvious Prescription
…industrialized nations of the world–Taiwan’s program adopted in the mid-1990s is the most recent success–it is useful to examine what the obstacles are to single-payer reform in the U.S. Our…
Insurance Blob Wastes One-Third of Care Dollars
…our patients. The simple fact is we could learn a thing or two about health care from Canada, France, Taiwan and every other developed nation in the world. They all…
Healthcare packages all inferior, except for one
…single-payer system would produce the savings needed to cover everyone, largely by using existing resources without the waste. Taiwan adopted a single-payer system in 1995, boosting health coverage from 57…
As I see it: Act now to fix ailing health care system
…Zealand, Australia and Taiwan. A single non-profit insurance plan would eliminate our current market-based and employer-based system, which squanders 30 percent of health care dollars on administrative costs, and only…