…those of Victor Rodwin on France, Ching-Chuan Yeh on Taiwan, Danielle Martin on Canada, and Jakob Kjellberg on Denmark. Even the presentations from the other side by Sally Pipes and…
It’s Time for Single-Payer
…the mid-1970s, when Canada’s health system was fully implemented. From then on, the curves diverged, with America’s climbing much faster than Canada’s. When Taiwan converted to single-payer in 1995, the…
Jonathan Oberlander on the prospect for single payer
…provincial insurance program. Canadian national health insurance arrangements — and Taiwan has a similar system — resemble traditional U.S. Medicare, with public financing for privately delivered services. Sanders is not…
So it’s the prices, but what do we do?
…typically is used by tax-financed, government-run, single-payer health-insurance systems, such as those of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Canada and the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Unilateral, administrative…
T.R. Reid’s “The Healing of America”
…financing, though with variations. 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)….
Single-payer system and Florida’s budget are linked
…proposal that covers all citizens, and the only proposal that utilizes a successful business model: Medicare. Australia, Canada, Taiwan and other countries with better-rated health care quality at half the…
How the U.S. measures up to Canada’s health care system
…do it. How does Germany do it? How does Taiwan do it? How do other nations do it? And if you think you are way out of line, if you’re…
The Doctors’ Revolt
…that essentially eliminates the central role of private insurers. Most industrial societies — including nations as diverse as Taiwan, France, and Canada — have adopted universal health systems that provide…
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…
NYT Opinion Newsletter: Why America needs Medicare for All
…factor in a single-payer, Medicare for All system. Taiwan and Canada both have single-payer systems, and both spend less than 2 percent of total expenditures on administrative costs — and…
Urban Institute’s attack on single payer
…hospitals.” Nothing like that ever happened, nor did it happen when Taiwan implemented single payer more recently. And there’s no reason to think it would happen here. Moreover, surveys show…
Single-payer health care cuts costs
Insurance administrators are not evil. They are, rather, a product of our uniquely dysfunctional health care system.
…contrast, converts administrative overhead into health care. Single-payer efficiency is validated daily by corporate single-payer plans in the United States and national single-payer plans in Australia, Taiwan, Denmark, Israel and…