…private health insurance system will not. Despite our politicians telling us a single-payer plan is not feasible we know that it is. Taiwan, just ten years ago, converted its fragmented…
Do members of Congress deserve government subsidized health insurance?
…taking office. Now he backs plans that would lead to 22 million fewer people having coverage. But if Taiwan, Slovenia, Spain, Japan and just about every other modern country can…
Burden of prior authorization getting worse
…for those remaining refractory to educational efforts? Taiwan has shown that that can work with a single payer system. Stay informed! Visit www.pnhp.org/qotd to sign up for daily email updates….
Americans acknowledge health care disparities but are divided on concerns about fairness
…Taiwan — most respondents believed that basic health care needs are being met. http://content.healthaffairs.org… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Ouch! Of 32 middle- and high-income countries studied, more Americans…
Americaās ranking on amenable mortality is an embarrassment
…United States 81 Montenegro 80 Lebanon 80 Hungary 80 Poland 79 Saudi Arabia 79 Bermuda 79 Bahrain 79 Slovakia 78 Latvia 78 Taiwan 77 Puerto Rico 77 Lithuania 76 Macedonia…
Expanded Medicare is easy fix for health system
…and where a public authority negotiates provider fees and prices for medications and supplies (Canada and Taiwan); and 3.) a system of multiple, highly regulated insurers who offer a common,…
Dismal projections for national health expenditures and the numbers of uninsured
…fail to ensure that health care is a right for all. On a personal note, our daughter-in-law is in Taiwan – her native country – where today she had major…
Misinformation fueled Obamacare anger, Tucson physician finds on cross-country ride
…Canada to hear from Canadians firsthand what they think of their health system. He’s interested in doing the same in Taiwan, which also has a government-run single payer system. http://tucson.com……
America cannot be a superpower with a substandard health care system
…we expend $18,000 per year while Canada, the EU countries, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, among others, get all necessary health care for their citizens at approximately $9,000 per capita annually….
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., Briefs Democratic Platform Committee on Single Payer
…(see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steffie-woolhandler/medicares-history-belies-_b_9245484.html), and the start-up of single payer systems in Canada and Taiwan went smoothly. Interestingly, when Medicare started up, there was little society-wide increase in the utilization of medical…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on single payer
A single-payer system makes economic sense
…care. Taiwan, for example, spends only a little over 6 percent of its GDP on healthcare, while achieving better health outcomes on some key indicators than we do. The reason,…
Urban Instituteās 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…