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The leap to single-payer: what Taiwan can teach

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26-Dec-18 Taiwan is proof a country can make huge changes to its healthcare system. From 1995, with only five years of planning and two years of legislative efforts it had completed the transformation to a single-payer system. [image: David Chang / European Pressphoto Agency] 

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Thai healthcare on life support

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26-Nov-17 Thailand's universal healthcare coverage scheme is confronting its most critical time since its introduction in 2002, as the scheme comes under attack from military government leaders who say it has a poor financial model. [image: Jetjaras Na Ranong]

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Indonesia’s prize health insurance system mired in debt

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20-Nov-17 In January 2015, the Indonesian government launched an ambitious comprehensive health insurance system designed to make basic care available universally by 2019. Today the scheme faces nearly insurmountable financing and unpaid contribution related debts. [image: Asia Sentinel]

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