…happen when Taiwan implemented single payer more recently. And there’s no reason to think it would happen here. Moreover, surveys show that most doctors would welcome national health insurance, and…
Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United StatesāIf We Let It
…Canada, Taiwan, and other countries. The following features of a single-payer option come from the proposals of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a group of more than 20,000…
Health care. Go public or go broke.
…subsidize cheaper drugs for Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and other countries. The drug companies also orchestrate inversions to lower their American tax bills. They go abroad, pay low taxes to…
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…
CEO Richard Master Masterminds Full Medicare for All
…Smith, who went on to head the entire General Motors, said much the same. Master and his crew then traveled to Taiwan, which has free choice of physician and hospital,…
āWe are not Denmark,ā butā¦
…and Taiwan, to name a few — adopted national health programs. By the end of the 20th century, the U.S. was the lone hold out for private, for-profit health insurance,…
Obamacare’s big overhead costs to top $270B
…single-payer systems like Taiwan’s or Canada’s. Yet traditional Medicare is a bargain compared to the ACA strategy of filtering most of the new dollars through private insurers and private HMOs…
Urgent Care Price Gaming
A simple xray at a basic urgent care clinic is inexpensive, right? Not when owners exploit payment rules to charge sky-high hospital prices for a service delivered in the mall. Gaming the system is the name of the game for our current profit-obsessed health care system. Time to switch to single payer!
…Taxes help pay for our medical system. The procedures are covered, and I won’t get billed for them.” “Taiwan has one of the best universal healthcare systems on the planet….
FAQs
…instructive. Yes. Single-payer programs in other nations such as Canada, Taiwan, and Australia show that it’s possible to provide high-quality care for everyone at about half the cost, per capita,…