全 民 健 康 保 險 年 報
National Health Insurance In Taiwan
2013-2014
ANNUAL REPORT
榮獲
2008
年諾貝爾經濟學獎的普林斯
頓大學保羅克魯曼（
Paul Krugman
）
教授，
更曾在
2005
年
11
月
7
日紐約時報（
New
York Times
）
中， 以
"
Pride, Prejudice,
Insurance"
一文，公開讚許臺灣的健保，
在沒有大幅增加醫療費用的情況下，卻達成
了全民納保的目標。
At around the same time, in a column in the British
Medical Journal (BMJ) in January 2008 titled “Humbled in
Taiwan,” noted health economist Uwe Reinhardt stressed the
high administrative efficiency of Taiwan’s health insurance
system and suggested that the United States should be
humbled and inspired by Taiwan’s experience. Later the same
year, an article in the winter 2008 edition of U.S. political
magazine Dissent titled “Health Care in Taiwan: Why Can’t
the United States Learn Some Lessons?” introduced Taiwan’s
health care system and stressed that the government abuses
that Americans fear would result from a single-payer scheme
have yet tomaterialize inTaiwan.
Then there was a column published in 2009 in the
quarterly Jamahiriya Medical Journal in Libya that introduced
the special characteristics of Taiwan’s health insurance system
and suggested that countries around the world should be like
Taiwan and learn from the experience of others. It argued
that free market health care systems have not been able to
safeguard medical equality and had resulted in “adverse
selection,”making it impossible to pool and share risk.
Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate and New York Times
columnist Paul Krugman praised Taiwan’s health care system
in a November 7, 2005 column called “Pride, Prejudice,
Insurance,” writing that Taiwan had reached nearly universal
coverage without much of an increase in health expenditures.