…one-term course on Comparative Health Care Systems at the Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. There she got to experience first hand what she preaches about every day – that single-payer…
Zakaria disappoints in CNN health care special
…and raised the bogey of high taxes as the price one has to pay for such a system. But on balance the account was generally favorable. Taiwan’s adoption of single-payer…
“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,…
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…
Taiwan’s Health Reforms: Lessons for the U.S. and Maine
Speaking in Maine The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Oct 19, 2010 Listen to the talk by Dr. William Hsiao given at Bates College (mp3)…
Taiwan's Health Reforms: Lessons for the U.S. and Maine
Speaking in Maine The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Oct 19, 2010 Listen to the talk by Dr. William Hsiao given at Bates College (mp3)…
International Health Systems for Single Payer Advocates
…national health insurance system, as demonstrated by Canada, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Taiwan and Sweden, health insurance is publicly administered and most physicians are in private practice. U.S. Medicare would be…
The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
…Taiwan achieves equal or better results at much lower cost. This conclusion applies to comparisons within the United States as well as across countries. For example, a study conducted by…
5 Myths About Health Care Around the World
…New Zealand and Cuba, do provide health care in government hospitals, with the government paying the bills. Others — for instance, Canada and Taiwan — rely on private-sector providers, paid…
Dr. Sidney Wolfe's Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at Hearing on Health Insurance
…there’s a health insurance industry, in the way, obstructing care. Other more recent experiments abroad include Taiwan. In 1995, Taiwan had said, we don’t like the fact that 40 percent…
Single payer: bold, affordable, humane
…doomed to fail because it is dependent on a complex, fragmented health care financing system. In contrast, consider Taiwan, where everyone has a smart card. Your smart card carries your…
Cognitive dissonance in U.S. health care
…sharply tiered system is viewed as unacceptable. “If you want to kill a health care proposal, whether in Taiwan or Germany” Reinhardt told his audience last week, “all you need…