第 三 篇 國 際 評 價 與 肯 定
Chapter 3 International Recognition
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除國際媒體報導外,其他國際期刊也時
常以臺灣經驗作為借鏡,相繼報導我國的健
保成就,在肯定我國努力的同時,更企盼能
作為各國學習的楷模。例如:
2008
年美國
內科學年鑑
Annuals of Internal Medicine
刊載了由國家衛生研究院溫啟邦研究員發
表的
"
Learning from Taiwan: Experience
with Universal Health Insurance"
其 內
容評估全民健保實施十年的經驗,並肯定我
國全民健保政策有助於提升弱勢人口的健
康,更使因病致貧的問題相對減少;在英國
醫學期刊
"
BMJ 12 January2008 vol. 336"
的「觀測站專欄」中,美國知名健康經濟
學者
Uwe Reinhardt
教授在
"
Humbled in
Taiwan"
一文裡,也曾強調臺灣健保行政效
率高,建議美國可從臺灣經驗中得到啟發;
2008
年美國政治期刊「異議」
"
Dissent"
"
Health Care in Taiwan-Why Can't the
United States Learn Some Lessons?"
文中,介紹臺灣全民健保,強調美國人民
所疑懼的單一保險人設計導致政府濫權,
在臺灣健保中並不存在;遠在非洲發行的
利比亞群眾醫學期刊
"
Jamahiriya Medical
Journal, Summer 2009 v9 n2"
季刊中之
社論專欄也刊登我國全民健保制度之報導,
作者介紹臺灣健保制度特色,並總結各國
應和臺灣一樣,由不同國家的經驗學習到,
自由市場的運作除了無法提供公平的醫療
保障,並會產生逆選擇現象,而難以達到
風險分攤的目標。
Several international journals have also taken a close
look at Taiwan’s NHI system, reporting on the program’s
achievements in the hope that it could serve as a model for
other countries to learn from. Among them: An editorial in the
U.S.-based Annuals of International Medicine in early 2008,
titled “Learning from Taiwan: Experience with Universal
Health Insurance,” summarized a paper by Wen Chi-pang,
an investigator with the National Health Research Institutes’
Center for Health Policy Research and Development, and
others that evaluated the NHI program’s first 10 years. The
paper concluded that Taiwan’s health care policies had helped
improve the life expectancies of socially disadvantaged groups
and narrowed the disparity in care between the wealthy and the
poor.