…(or else pay a fine) simply cannot afford the premiums. Meanwhile the single payer model has already proved its effectiveness in country after country. Taiwan recently adopted single payer. Like…
Don McCanne Letter to the Editor
…care. The findings are not a mere theoretical construct. The current issue of Health Affairs includes a report on the single payer system established in Taiwan in 1995. Their program…
Uwe Reinhardt comments on LeBow and Sullivan
…to arrange the economy so as to suit the aristocracy’s tastes. Unlike similar setups in Asia, however, the American aristocracy is not benign. In Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, for example,…
2012 Annual Meeting Materials
…Taiwan Workshop Slideshow: Health Care Justice: Lessons from Taiwan By Dr. Claudia Chaufan Defining the Message Workshop Slideshow: Health Care as a Human Right Dr. Jeoffry Gordon US Health Care…
UK’s secret? Social solidarity.
In the UK’s health system, rationing isn’t a dirty word
…politicians turn on the civil servants when they pick those fights, the structure collapses. The late Uwe Reinhardt, the famed health economist who helped set up Taiwan’s single-payer system, once…
America’s extreme neoliberal healthcare system is putting the country at risk
Single-payer healthcare can’t prevent a novel virus like Covid-19 but it could help us plan, coordinate and save lives
…or at work. As a Taiwan government spokeswoman, lauding her country’s single-payer system for its successful containment of Covid-19, told NBC News, “Taiwan’s health insurance lets everyone not be afraid…
Transcript of Bill Moyers Journal on single payer health care
…never been done in any country. Taiwan, of all places, said, we don’t like the fact that 40 percent of our people are uninsured. They passed, essentially, single-payer plan and…
What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
…heart of the Canadian system. When Taiwan began reforming its health care system in the late 1980s, and Reinhardt was called in as an advisor, his recommendation was clear: adopt…
No Country for Sick Men
To judge the content of a nation's character, look no further than its health-care system.
…countries–Canada, Taiwan, Australia–have a blended system, with private-sector doctors and hospitals, but a government payment system. The Canadian model–private providers, but public insurance to pay them–is the system Lyndon Johnson…
2012 Annual Meeting Materials
…Taiwan Workshop Slideshow: Health Care Justice: Lessons from Taiwan By Dr. Claudia Chaufan Defining the Message Workshop Slideshow: Health Care as a Human Right Dr. Jeoffry Gordon US Health Care…
Health care system a major factor in African Americans’ poorer health
…the ’90s, Taiwan was having the same health care problems we are having here. So they looked at every other system in the world, and they ended up deciding that…
The U.S. Health Care System: Really the Best?
…jobs and wealthy enough to afford high-end policies. The company spends almost 20%6 of its premium dollars paying for 37,000 administrators.7 In contrast, Taiwan’s national health care service, which also…