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03-Jan-18 Indications are that patients in Thailand will have to pay a portion of their medical expenses when the National Health Security Bill is passed, changing the current universal healthcare scheme that offers most medical services free of change. [image: The Nation]
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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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29-Nov-17 Care Plus Brazil has launched its international private medical insurance product offering global coverage to Brazilians. The product will offer access to Blue Cross Blue Shield networks in the US and Bupa’s networks outside the US. [image: Care Plus]
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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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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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