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1. Out of top 200 hospitals in the world, Taiwan has 14 of them only behind US and Germany. It is nice considering our population is only 23 million. Clinical t
by juiyout 9y ago
1. Out of top 200 hospitals in the world, Taiwan has 14 of them only behind US and Germany. It is nice considering our population is only 23 million. Clinical technologies and results has been excellent in facial reconstruction, live transplant, heart transplant, fertility preservation, joint replacement, to name a few. Talents has been serving global clients where more money can be earned. (Somewhat like our IT export) Interestingly though, instead of moving overseas, prospective doctors move into high earning fields where National Health Insurance does not cover, for example, cosmetic surgeries.
2. Yes, business nature is to pump the points up. However, there is required monthly and annual reports to NHI. NHI has complete authority to deduct the points and fine you if they think you are cheating the system. And here the best part, you can appeal to the very same NHI for another review. They usually stand by their original decision from what I have heard. (This sounds just like Apple and its App Store.)
- brianwawok 9y agoThat sounds pretty good. I wonder what it would take to scale to America scale.
- juiyout 9y agoIt indeed is great for the masses. For doctors, as you voiced earlier, has been pretty ugly. They have to find work outside of country or move to other fields trying to earn money from treatments not covered by NHI. One more subtle effect is that people start to treat medical service as a cheap service and it is common to see its abuse. In Taiwan, a piece of candy is usually more expensive than a pill.