…they do this, and the mechanisms and details do matter… Canada is different from the U.K., is different from France is different from Germany, Japan, Austalia, Taiwan, etc… But only…
Don’t believe the lies about single-payer health care
…National health plans work extraordinarily well in every other industrialized nation. Canada, Scotland, Sweden, Taiwan, and Japan (among dozens of others) cover their entire population for a fraction of what…
COVID + 41 M uninsured = 339,000 Excess Deaths
…COVID compared with Taiwan and other countries. We’ve speculated on the role of poor access to primary care, driven by lack of insurance and thus financial barriers. Now we have…
Conyers Reintroduces HR 676 into the 112th Congress
…in countries in Europe, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada. We can no longer continue to embrace the idea that private insurance companies and corporate-owned hospitals and clinics will bring down the…
Faith community must embrace single-payer health system
…now in countries like Canada and Taiwan. It is also the foundation for the core components of our own Medicare system. Under single-payer, coverage is no longer tied to the…
Single payer health: it's only fair
U.S. health care is grossly distorted by waste and profit, while millions go uninsured. Americans deserve full universal coverage
…dollar spent in the United States goes to administrative costs, rather than to delivering care. We must do better. Taiwan, for example, spends only a little over 6 percent of…
Uwe Reinhardt on the public option
…or Canadians or the people 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…
The Vermont health bill: a brief overview from the single-payer perspective
…administrative workers (p. 56); bulk purchasing of drugs and supplies; use of “smart card” technology as in Taiwan (p. 37); and insurance coverage that duplicates the single payer is proscribed…
Single payer ballot questions pass in all fourteen Massachusetts districts!
…is incredibly exciting as the Vermont legislature recently commissioned Dr. William Hsiao, the designer of Taiwan’s single payer health care system, to draft an implementation and impact study for a…
Texas is No. 1 in lack of health insurance: lessons from other nations
…in developed nations: Beveridge (the type of system used in the UK), Bismarck (used in Germany), and single-payer (in use in Canada and, since 1995, Taiwan, among others). The role…
Six months of health law: Time to celebrate? Not yet.
…Canada, or in the UK, or anywhere else in the industrialized world, including Taiwan (and soon in China) she would not be hoping to remain forever young just to have…
Vermont Joint Fiscal Committee approves single payer study
…helped Taiwan revamp its health-care system for a six-month, $300,000 health research project for Vermont. The consultant’s task: Give lawmakers three roadmaps the state could follow to achieve a more…