…than 14 pages long, and is only that long because it is also printed in French. Taiwan, which had 40 percent of its population uninsured, installed a universal single-payer system…
State-Based, Single-Payer Health Care — A Solution for the United States?
…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 opposition, however, the U.S. Congress never…
It's the financing, stupid!
A second opinion on Gawande’s ‘Cost Conundrum’
…ask himself why is it that Canada, Taiwan, France, or Japan, where fee for service reigns supreme, still spend a fraction of even what our cheapest and best run hospitals…
Harvard Professor William Hsiao on effective reform
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan
…Americans can learn from the Taiwanese example? A. You can have universal coverage and good quality health care while still managing to control costs. But you have to have a…
Et Tu, Atul?: Test-Case for a Single-Payer Hypothesis
…system virtually overnight — though not all provinces underwent the change simultaneously. Taiwan changed to a single payer system about 10 years ago at a stroke.” “Medicare replaced private coverage…
Something is Rotten at PBS
…to five countries that deliver health care for all — UK, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan — to learn about how they do it. Reid found that the one thing these…
Health Care Reform: Learning from the International Experience — A Case for Single Payer
…who can appreciate a good challenge?). Let me explain in a simplified way how every other industrialized economy in the world — and even more recently Taiwan — has managed…
Change we can believe in: Americans need single payer now
…reason to believe that the outcomes will be different this time, which is why the rest of the international community –Canada, all European nations, Australia, Japan, and more recently, Taiwan…
Single-payer system and Florida's budget are linked
…proposal that covers all citizens, and the only proposal that utilizes a successful business model: Medicare. Australia, Canada, Taiwan and other countries with better-rated health care quality at half the…
Questioned, Obama Says Single Payer Would Be Best
…that in Taiwan, they looked around the world for a system and they decided they would copy our Medicare and use it to cover all the people there. Why don’t…
How the U.S. measures up to Canada's health care system
…do it. How does Germany do it? How does Taiwan do it? How do other nations do it? And if you think you are way out of line, if you’re…
Single-payer system is the way to go
…A fine example is the national health insurance in Taiwan, with an overhead of less than 2 percent, functioning well since 1995 and covering 99 percent of the Taiwanese at…