How Taiwan keeps universal health care affordable

[@thomashamilton5817]

honestly, i'm starting to love modern Taiwan more and more every day.

[@Doochos]

It's interesting to learn more about the Taiwanese Healthcare system. It's fantastic. In my home country you have to wait days, weeks, or even months to see a doctor (non emergency), and in Taiwan you can, for example, see a Dr, get a scan, results, and prescription in a matter of hours, at a low price. I was amazed the first time I went to a Taiwanese hospital.

[@Yongbangxiang88]

I like the way the information is presented, slow and casual, yet informative and concise!

[@zszyTW]

IIRC from an economics lecture i attended, a major reason for the recent increases in US healthcare costs is the "Affordable care Act" of 2010. Two major fall outs were the creation of fiefdoms/oligopolies via the restriction of servicing across state lines (creating captive markets), and fining citizens that chose to not have health insurance, thus forcing citizens to pay for pricey healthcare they may not want.

[@iangarth6174]

This is a truely phenomenal video dude. Your channel is a gold mine.

[@youxkio]

Hi there. I have one too. Mine starts with EC. I am one year older than you. Totally agree with you. The Taiwanese health system is great and so precious comparing to the one in my home country. Cheers and Good Job!

[@maxpollum9095]

Excellent description and balanced view

[@aultraman]

A good post. I have no experience with the Taiwanese medical care system, but my Taiwanese friends all have positive things to say about it. I think another interesting system to do a quick overview is the health care system in Hong Kong. It's a hybrid system where the government provides a good basic level of care for a low fee. There is a long wait (like all universal health care systems). Those who have the means and don't want to wait can buy private insurance. This keeps the government cost down yet a basic level is available to those who need the service. Its a good compromise where everybody gets something (but not everybody is totally happy).

[@binjinhwang]

That's how Taiwan lure so many talents back. The wage/pay in Taiwan is really low. For example, a PhD with US degree and six year of postdoc fellowship in top 10 US institution only earns about 40~50k USD in TW. But why a lot of them still going back to TW with only half of the US pay? One of the reason is that the health care is so fxxxxing unaffordable in the US, even with a pretty good insurance plan.

[@carefulfoil7513]

Great vid. Please check the blur box. Just letting u know.

[@taiwanluthiers]

The problem with the US healthcare system is too many middlemen, too much money in politics (basically campaign finance laws favor large corporations), and American believing in self reliance. So they pay too much for healthcare while not getting a whole lot in return.

[@kisaragi-hiu]

6:13 I just want to mention that A123456789 is a real citizen ID number because whoever designed that system didn't know better. 6:38 The bottom left number is the NHI identification number; you might want to blur it out if KZbin still allows it…

[@Asianometry]

Ok thanks I’ll do that

[@GIGATHEBOT]

@@Asianometry you added the blur too late i got 5 seconds of seeing the id

[@donquixote3927]

@6m35s: I wouldn’t want to think I’d had to take recent experimental medicines to access health privileges.

[@sunnohh]

It’s almost as if single payer healthcare were the optimal solution

[@maddiekits]

Its not certainly, there's really just not enough data points to say which system is best except not a complete private one. A mix of a government run system with deductibles paid by a Singaporean medisafe type account would theoretically be the cheapest per outcomes but who knows if it would work well irl.

[@the_hiroman]

Taiwan is the BEST China.

[@PopShoppekid]

It sure is!!

[@lotcam4046]

Only in your wet dreams, ////