{"id":11622,"date":"2009-11-06T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11622"},"modified":"2009-11-06T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:13:37","slug":"william-hsiao-ph-d-on-the-taiwanese-example-of-single-payer-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11622","title":{"rendered":"William Hsiao, Ph.D. on the Taiwanese example of single-payer health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/two.pairlist.net\/mailman\/listinfo\/quote-of-the-day\">Don McCanne comments<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;There is no person more qualified to discuss health system design than William Hsiao.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em><br \/>\nNovember 3, 2009<br \/>\nHealth Care Abroad: Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>An interview of William Hsiao, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health<\/p>\n<p>Q. \u00a0What\u2019s the most important lesson that Americans can learn from the Taiwanese example?<\/p>\n<p>A. \u00a0You 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/health-care-abroad-taiwan\/\">http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/health-care-abroad-taiwan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Hsiao, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/faculty\/william-hsiao\/\">http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/faculty\/william-hsiao\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don McCanne comments: &#8220;There is no person more qualified to discuss health system design than William Hsiao.&#8221; The New York Times November 3, 2009 Health Care Abroad: Taiwan An interview of William Hsiao, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Harvard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-31s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}