…price. Canada adopted its “Medicare” system in the 1960s, and newly industrialized countries such as Taiwan and South Korea have adopted variations. Americans over 65 should be familiar with this…
Answers to Five of the Latest Myths Being Spread About Single Payer in Vermont
…cost: The proposal worked out by Dr William Hsiao the economist from Harvard who designed the Taiwan system, estimated that the entire system would be approximately $5.5 billion (after PPACA…
VA To Invest Billions in Open Source Transition
…U.K., Mexico, Egypt, Taiwan, and Malaysia. India is yet another nation where VistA is now making major inroads. Several dozen Indian hospitals have already successfully implemented VistA. Max Healthcare, for example,…
So it's the prices, but what do we do?
High health-care costs: It’s all in the pricing
…systems, such as those of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Canada and the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Unilateral, administrative price-setting shares with an all-payer system the advantage…
Local physician will lead national group
Andrew Coates chosen by organization that supports universal care
…a just society should provide in the way of real health care access.” The United States should model its health care system on countries like Canada, Taiwan, New Zealand and…
Health care a right
…several countries, most recently Taiwan. He also presented the results of a detailed analysis of the health care system of Vermont, providing estimates of potential savings from a single-payer system….
In support of universal Medicare
…and are the reason that countries such as Canada, Germany, Taiwan and France pay half as much for healthcare as we do. Why do they save money? First, they eliminate…
Vermont’s Move Toward Single-Payer Health Insurance
…testimony before the Vermont State Legislature, William Hsiao, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, described his experience designing single-payer health-care systems in several countries, most recently Taiwan….
GOP plan is a non-starter
…all Americans with health care coverage. Japan, Taiwan and countries in Europe have been able to effectively contain their health care costs for decades through their very successful universal health…
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
…payer in 1948; Canada implemented one in 1966; and Taiwan did so in 1995. While all these countries pay for health care from a single government fund, the delivery system…
A single-payer system makes economic sense
…on individual policyholders. It boggles the mind that approximately 30 percent of every healthcare dollar spent in the United States goes to administrative costs rather than to delivering care. Taiwan,…
We should support Medicare for all
…senior citizens to all of us. Medicare is a popular program that has worked well for American seniors and entire countries like Canada, Australia and Taiwan. Other industrialized countries pay…