Taiwan chooses medicare for all

Here’s an interesting twist: Taiwan went all over the world searching for a model of single payer universal health insurance to implement — and chose Medicare. As PHNP points out:

So Congress is returning from recess with health care reform at the top of its agenda. They have already decided that single payer is off the table, but they are having difficulty in addressing three issues: 1) the role of government in regulating the private insurance industry and offering a public insurance option, 2) the near impossibility of covering everyone in the fragmented, multi-payer system that they have selected, and 3) the difficulty in finding funds to pay for this model of reform - the most expensive ever devised.

But they’ve taken off the table the one model that would work - the uniquely American program: Medicare for All. Fixing Medicare and providing it for everyone would: 1) define the most effective and efficient role that government could have in health care financing, 2) make coverage completely automatic for absolutely everyone, and 3) reduce inefficiencies and waste that would eliminate the need to search for other funds.</blockquote>