…6 and 7, in particular. Taiwan: A very interesting study, also [in Health Affairs], is “Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable? Lessons from Taiwan.” Since it’s predictable that…
COVID-19 and Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities
…case and contact tracing — measures that have been successfully deployed in nations such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore,2,10 and that controlled the 2002-03 SARDS outbreak11-13 — were quickly…
COVID-19 and Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities
…case and contact tracing — measures that have been successfully deployed in nations such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore,2,10 and that controlled the 2002-03 SARDS outbreak11-13 — were quickly…
William Hsiao has wise words for us on paying for health care
“There’s a Fear Factor, a Fear of Change.”
…from scratch. One who has is William Hsiao. A health care economist now retired from Harvard University, Hsiao designed a national health care system for Taiwan in the 1990s, and…
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Rev. Tom Mainor on single payer reform, with an additional comment by Don McCanne:
…payer who operates a common payment system, whatever its precise form may be. In lectures I had given in Taiwan some years ago, I called it “single-pipe” systems, to stress…
"Sick Around the World"
…health care ideas aren’t really so foreign to us. For American veterans, health care is just like Britain’s NHS; for seniors on Medicare, like Taiwan; for working Americans with insurance,…
Louisville Courier-Journal: Readers' Forum
…Taiwan’s residents. What’s the deal? Taiwan can figure this out, but we can’t? Our current system leaves 46 million out, and millions more underinsured. George Washington wrote: “The admiration of…
Forget Obamacare: Vermont wants to bring single payer to America
…a health insurance plan. When Taiwan implemented a single-payer system in 1995, the insured rate went from 53 to 96 percent in nine months. Single-payer systems also tend to have…
Health care as a right is hard sell, except outside U.S.
…million uninsured or 25 million underinsured in America, health care in capitalist democracies such as Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Great Britain or Taiwan is decidedly better than the broken system we…
HR 676: "Still the One"
…medicine” when Taiwan — TAIWAN — uses it? Really? I’m pretty sure their “resistance to communism” street cred is equal to ours.) 2.) HR 676 is based on our own…
Vermont's single payer proposal – listen to William Hsiao
State-Based, Single-Payer Health Care — A Solution for the United States?
…latter. Experience in countries such as Taiwan and Canada shows that single-payer health care systems can achieve universal coverage and control inflation of health care costs. Because of strong political…
Health Reform: Necessary, but will the Affordable Care Act be sufficient?
…not-for-profit insurers with a single negotiated fee schedule and very tight public insurance regulation (Germany, Netherlands, France) and lastly, single-payer national health insurance (Canada, Taiwan, Australia and our own version…