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Internationally Acclaimed NHI Experiences
Since the introduction of the NHI, the NHIA has gradually achieved its goal of easing the public’s medical care burden with the support of the people of Taiwan and the medical community. In particular, the NHIA has succeeded in easing the NHI premium burden, reducing administrative expenditures, shortening waiting time, and minimizing the insurance administration cost, which has earned the NHIA widespread international acclaim. Each year, a large number of foreign experts, scholars or official representatives are attracted to visit Taiwan to investigate its National Health Insurance system. From July 2017 to June 2018, the NHIA has received 466 foreign visitors from 56 countries from around the world.
The theme of the 2018 WHA is Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Leaders from around the world have also promised to ensure everyone have access to basic medical services by 2030, to be free from having to worry about financial difficulties caused by their diseases. Taiwan launched the
民眾滿意 國際肯定
Public Satisfactions and International Recognition
National Health Insurance adopting the single-payer system in 1995. All citizens, regardless of gender, age, and wealth, are entitled to equal medical rights since birth. Then the 2nd-generation NHI was implemented in 2013 to conduct financing and payment reform. As far as many developing countries are concerned, Taiwan’s NHI is a world- famous “Taiwan experience”.
During the WHA held in 2018, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare also organized a delegation to Geneva with the practical purpose of exchange professionalism while deepening relationships with other countries. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare and foreign experts and scholars jointly held the “Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMA)-A Threat to Global Health Security” in Geneva, Switzerland on May 22 to engage in in-depth discussions and exchanges on antibiotic resistance and superbug threats confronting the world. The NHIA Director General, Dr. Po-Chang Lee, served as a panelist in the meeting and presented antibiotic payment policies and medication management measures, including the use of PharmaCloud to reduce repeated medication and the use of “NHI
蔡總統召見世衛行動團。
President Tsai summoned Taiwan’s Delegation to WHA.
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