…effective single-payer system in Taiwan. The odds are in her favor: Hsiao has testified before the Vermont legislative committees, and he was brought in by Senate Pro Tempore Peter Shulman,…
Uwe Reinhardt on community rating and risk equalization in other nations
…strictly on ability to pay. I could continue to describe the health insurance systems of other European countries, or Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Australia or New Zealand. We would find…
T.R. Reid's "The Healing of America"
…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 combined…
‘Sick Around America’ disappoints
…all other countries require all residents to buy health insurance. This is not true. Canada and UK cover everyone through taxes. Taiwan has a system like our Medicare. If the…
Dr. Mitchiner explains single payer to his emergency medicine colleagues, and to all of us
…When Taiwan converted to single-payer in 1995, the costs went up in the first year, as expected, and then leveled off to a reasonable increase of about 3% per year….
Himmelstein responds to Gawande on single payer
…insurance system very like ours to its current system virtually overnight — though not all provinces underwent the change simultaneously. Taiwan changed to a single payer system about 10 years…
Baucus and Reinhardt on single payer
…than police, fire, or postal services? Uwe E. Reinhardt: Many countries with single-payer systems (Canada, Taiwan, etc.) ask that question. Those countries do view health care like fire protection and…
ACA adding billions to health care bureaucratic waste: study
Initial $6 billion in start-up costs of exchanges pale beside $273.6 billion in extra insurance overhead from 2014 through 2022, researchers say
…Taiwan’s or Canada’s are even lower, closer to 1 percent, they write, adding that if the U.S. were to adopt a single-payer system, the savings on bureaucracy and paperwork would…
Single-Payer National Health Insurance
…work, and work well. As William Hsiao, Ph.D., professor of economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and the designer of Taiwan’s successful single-payer system, observed in a 2009…
Single-payer health care likely less disruptive, better for economy
…The adoption of Medicare in the pre-internet 1960s was very smooth, as was Taiwan’s move to a Medicare-like system in 1995. Contrary to concerns that such a move would expand…
Doctor: National health care is a ‘moral imperative’
…kinds of health care systems being managed around the world. “Canada pays for insurance for everybody,” Blake said. “Taiwan and Australia and Sweden do it in somewhat different ways.” The…
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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase appoint Dr. Atul Gawande as Chief Executive Officer of their newly-formed company to address U.S. employee healthcare
…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 to a single…