Public support for National Health Insurance.

Gender differences in public perceptions on National Health Insurance.

BACKGROUND Implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) commenced recently. With the promise of addressing drastic inequalities in the health sector, NHI has the potential to positively transform the health system . In particular, NHI could have a significant positive impact on females, who are disadvantaged under the current system, with higher rates of poor health and lower rates of medi...

Why oncologists should support single-payer national health insurance.

Oncologists face growing difficulties in caring for patients because of the rising cost of treatment coupled with the high prevalence of uninsurance and underinsurance. A diagnosis of cancer is often the single most catastrophic health care event in an individual’s life. The stress of the situation increases exponentially when patients realize the burden of cost on themselves and their families...

National Health Insurance exposed.

National Health Insurance

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei. Received: 16 August 2000. Revised: 8 September 2000. Accepted: 17 October 2000. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Shan-Chwen Chang, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Nati...

National Health Insurance Notes

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...