…the 1990s, the Taiwan government studied health reform and concluded that single-payer, modeled on our Medicare system, was the best way to go. They pushed it through within a few…
It’s the financing, stupid!
…yet, Gawande is not perspicacious enough to ask himself why is it that Canada, Taiwan, France, or Japan, where fee for service reigns supreme, still spend a fraction of even…
Cross-border checkup: Dr. Danielle Martin defends Canada’s single-payer system
…School of Medicine & Dentistry graduate spoke as part of an international panel presenting to the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging. Invited alongside health-care professionals from Taiwan,…
Harvard Professor William Hsiao on effective reform
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan An interview of William Hsiao, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health The New York Times November 3, 2009 Q. What’s the…
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 will strengthen care, not weaken it
…health program, like that in Taiwan, not Britain. Taiwan spends only 6 percent of their GDP on health care, yet all their citizens are covered and get comprehensive, quality care….
There are solid options in health care reform
…a government agency like Medicare. Administrative overheads are lower in countries that use a government agency, like Canada, South Korea and Taiwan. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Act (S.1804)…
PNHP comments on Hsiao draft report "Achieving Affordable Universal Health Care in Vermont" 1/19/11
…2015. We believe that the evidence from Taiwan shows that faster implementation, if there is the political will, is possible. Comments on the fiscal analysis: Single Payer “Bends the Cost…
Trump was right about health care for most of his life
…globe, I was particularly struck by the experience of Taiwan, another free-market haven. In 1995, 41 percent of its population was uninsured and the country had very poor health outcomes….
Single-payer activists screen film, discuss Canadian/American healthcare systems
State groups hope to raise support for a single-payer bill this winter
…cost savings, the lack of administrative concerns for doctors and increased access to care for the public. Eric Lambert, who lived in Taiwan for seven years, said as a type…
Reform 2.0
…been done—repeatedly. Korea in the 1980s and Taiwan in the 1990s, for example, revamped their health care systems. They have multiple insurers but all follow the same rules. Korea’s and…
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…