Health Affairs

Health Affairs, 22, no. 3 (2003): 60 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.22.3.60 © 2003 by Project HOPE	New Online   Reinhardt: Post-Summit   Report from the Summit   President's Reform Proposal   Rising Medicare Costs   Spending for Immigrants   $2.5 Trillion U.S. Health Tab   Child Obesity Briefing

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Taiwan

PROLOGUE

Universal Coverage In Taiwan

PROLOGUE: Taiwan is the most recent advanced economy to adopt a universal health insurance program. After seven years of substantial progress, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) program has received little attention from the international health policy community. This may be because Taiwan is not a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which provide worldwide data and analysis for health policymakers. Yet as the authors of the following two papers note, Taiwan’s progress in providing universal health coverage for its citizens while constraining the growth of health costs offers important lessons.

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