…VA, which actually employs doctors and owns hospitals, is widely understood by experts to provide better care than private hospitals do. Krugman and Wells note that when Taiwan switched to…
Has Canada Got the Cure?
…in the company of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia, and Denmark. The U.S. is 43rd–in the company of Croatia and Lithuania, below Taiwan and Cuba. All the countries surrounding Canada or…
What's behind Ireland's economic miracle–and G.M.'s financial crisis?
…of some magical cultural ingredient possessed by South Korea and Japan and Taiwan that has brought them success. But the truth is that sub-Saharan Africa has been mired in a…
Roanoke Times endorses single-payer
…siphon the healthiest and wealthiest from traditional insurance plans, exacerbating current problems by leaving the weakest and sickest in the insurance pool. Experience elsewhere in the world, especially Taiwan and…
Single-Payer: Good for Business
…to provide full insurance coverage.” Canada has had a single-payer system for more than thirty years. (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Taiwan also have one.) American executives who have…
Uwe Reinhardt responds on Malaysia's single payer proposal
Capitalist Taiwan (the Republic of China) has had such a single-payer scheme since 1995. Malaysia may well be inspired by that system. Oddly enough, the Communist Peoples Republic of China…
Uwe Reinhardt’s final message to us
PRICED OUT: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
…sometimes confusing expressions as to how single payer may be a great system for some other nations (e.g., Taiwan, which can be thankful for the partnership of Tsung-Mei Cheng and…
T.R. Reid's "The Healing of America"
The Healing of America
…The basic models are Bismarck (Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan), Beveridge (Great Britain, Italy, Spain, most of Scandinavia), and national health insurance (Canada, Taiwan, South Korea). The United States has…
Uwe Reinhardt on the public option
Who Needs the Public Option?
…of Japan and Taiwan. As I have argued in earlier posts to this blog, the choice of a public, government-run standard health insurance plan would certainly go a long way…
Himmelstein responds to Gawande on single payer
…stroke. Each Canadian province went from a private insurance system very like ours to its current system virtually overnight — though not all provinces underwent the change simultaneously. Taiwan changed…
Baucus and Reinhardt on single payer
Sen. Baucus Discusses Prospects for Health Care Overhaul This Year
…countries with single-payer systems (Canada, Taiwan, etc.) ask that question. Those countries do view health care like fire protection and elementary and secondary education, and they structure their health system…
The tragedy of a man throwing his ill wife off of their balcony
Man charged with throwing wife off balcony to her death
…she had no health insurance, according to Probate Court records. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/233876.html Scotland: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1300572007 Australia: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22257643-663,00.html England: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=61940&in_page_id=34 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007380022,00.html Wales: http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0700world/tm_headline=man-threw-ill-wife-from-balcony&method=full&objectid=19642874&siteid=50082-name_page.html Germany: http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=64334 New Zealand: http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/32681/Default.aspx Taiwan: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/2007/08/17/118765/Man-accused.htm Canada: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html? CNN…