Harvard Professor William Hsiao on effective reform

Health Care Abroad: Taiwan

An interview of William Hsiao, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health
The New York Times
November 3, 2009

Q. What's the most important lesson that Americans can learn from the Taiwanese example?

A. You can have universal coverage and good quality health care while still managing to control costs. But you have to have a single-payer system to do it.

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health-care-abroad-taiwan/

William Hsiao, Ph.D.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/william-hsiao/

Comment:

By Don McCanne, MD

There is no person more qualified to discuss health system design than William Hsiao (see the link above for his qualifications).