…chronicled how 20 percent of U.S. health spending goes to “marketing, underwriting, administration and profit,” compared with 4 percent in France and 2 percent in Taiwan. This bloat is created…
Economic case for ‘Medicare for All’ compelling
…$3.5-trillion system has overhead and administrative expense of over 33 percent; Canada’s system has 12 percent and Taiwan’s is even less. Simply eliminating that waste within our system would save…
Major defects in law avoidable with single payer
…nobody out. Such legislation will end the irony of a health system that costs twice as much as systems in other nations, such as Canada and Taiwan, yet fails to…
Will the ACA achieve universal, equitable coverage?
…for all of us because it has worked for seniors for almost 50 years. In 1995, Taiwan replaced their private insurance system with one based on Medicare. They went from…
Health reform and professional ethics
…countries include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Israel, and many others. Much of the evidence for a large amount of unnecessary care in the US is…
Vermont report: Pre-existing conditions
…He had designed the single-payer system for Taiwan, among other places, and his appearance before the state Legislature was a watershed moment in the single-payer movement. Hsiao might never have…
It's Time for Single-Payer
…until 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,…
States in the Spotlight as Single-Payer Resurfaces in Mainstream Discourse
…Hsiao, the Harvard economist who designed Taiwan’s single-payer system in the 1990s. Following Shumlin’s election as governor, the state formally enlisted Hsiao to design a health care system that would…
Dr. Mitchiner explains single payer to his emergency medicine colleagues, and to all of us
It's Time for Single-Payer
…care, they were identical until 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…
It's Time for Single Payer
…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 costs…
Where ‘Socialized Medicine’ Has a U.S. Foothold
…with purely private health care delivery systems, including for-profit enterprises. Canada, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland come to mind. Socialized medicine refers to systems that couple…
We still need a single payer system
…long term. Let us hope that the American people will soon be able to join the citizens of other industrialized, democratic nations, from Canada to Taiwan, in being able to…