Learning From Taiwan: Experience with Universal Health Insurance
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ReportSource:
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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2008/Feb/Learning-From-Taiwan--Experience-with-Universal-Health-Insurance.aspxAbstract:
Taiwan's recent move to universal health insurance coverage—and what lessons its experience might hold for the United States—is the focus of an analysis in Annals of Internal Medicine by Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis, Ph.D., and Duke University Medical Center's Andrew T. Huang, M.D. Implemented in 1995, Taiwan's system has increased health insurance coverage from 57 percent to 98 percent of the population. It has also expanded access by waiving copayments for the very poor, veterans, and aboriginal populations. Includes a discussion of a new study of life expectancy before and after the introduction of national health insurance, as well as changes in health disparities.
