Healthcare in Taiwan, US (and China)

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(A) Taiwan
(1) Sean Graham, New Voices: Taiwan takes care of its citizens why can't U.S.? Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 22, 2009.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpnewvoices-taiwan-health-0822082209aug22,0,7210046.story

Note: Rollins College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollins_Colleg
(a private college near Orlando, Florida)

Quote:

"I pay $240 annually to participate [in Taiwan's universal national health-care system], while the school where I am enrolled in a graduate program pays the remainder. A typical family of four pays about $650 a year.

"Although all citizens and residents of Taiwan are required to participate in the national insurance plan, I can also find my own private medical insurance, which many Taiwanese do through their employers.

"Even if I have a major emergency while in the United States and need immediate surgery, I can take the bills back with me to Taiwan and receive compensation from the national system [of Taiwan when I am a member]

(2) Brian, Stitches Taiwan Style. Taiwan Travels; A travel journal of one New Yorker's adventures traveling in Taiwan (and hopefully other locales), Apr. 3, 2009.
http://briviani.blogspot.com/2009/04/stitches-taiwan-style.html

Note:
(a) Wai'ao Beach Park 外澳濱海遊憩區 (at 宜蘭縣頭城鎮)
See 東北角暨宜蘭海岸國家風景區觀光資訊網
http://www.necoast-nsa.gov.tw/
(In English version, it is said that Wai'ao means "Outer Harbor")

Quote:

"We get to the ER [at Jiaoshi 宜蘭縣礁溪鄉] and 3 doctors rush to me, and 5 nurses; like I was in some serious danger.  * * * The doctor spoke perfect English * * * Total time from ER entrance to check out............about 20 minutes.

"Embarrassing as it was...thanks to my Taiwan insurance it only cost me the equivalent of 10 US dollars. Apparently it would've only cost me 2,200 Taiwan dollars without insurance (60 US dollars). This was and still is baffling to me. Here I am basically an alien in Taiwan and I get better medical coverage than I would in my own country?


(B) US

Michael Grunwald, How to Cut Health-Care Costs: Less Care, More Data. Time, June 23, 2009.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1905340,00.html

Note: The article mentions
Press release: Chronically Ill Patients Get More Care, Less Quality, Says Latest Dartmouth Atlas. The Fix? A Major Overhaul of Medicare. Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Apr. 7, 2008.
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2008/04/07_atlas.shtml
The new edition of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness

(C) China

China's schistosomiasis scourge: Hello again, God of Plague; Slow progress against snail-fever. The Economist, June 18, 2009.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13871961

Note:
(a) This is a Chinese translation at Yeeyan.com 译言.
http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/26387/47198/dz

(b) Schistosoma japonicum 日本血吸蟲
(c) Farewell, God of Plague (by Mao): 送瘟神
http://www.ccview.net/htm/xiandai/shi/mzd004.htm

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