The Taiwanese Healthcare System: Characteristics Of The Taiwanese Health Care System
Taiwanese Healthcare System
Introduction
In 1995, Taiwan adopted a national health insurance structure which was a government administered national system of healthcare (Wu and Cheng, 2017). Among the characteristics of the Taiwan system include brief waiting periods, good accessibility, population coverage that is comprehensive, costs that are relatively low and a databank for national health insurance that is able to plan, monitor and evaluate heath services. Presently, almost all the standard healthcare services that are preventive in Taiwan are free. By examining the rates of utilization of free preventive care services, policy makers have the ability to gain specific insight into the manner in which consumers are able to respond to changes in prices in medical services that are preventive as a consequence of reforms in the healthcare sector. Among the strengths of the Taiwanese health system include a good accessibility whereby there is a high approval rate …show more content…
Taiwanese citizens often take medicines or seek medical assistance in a frequent manner, even for minor sicknesses (Duckett et al., 2016). Ultimately, the medical resources in Taiwan get overused. Another weakness is the weak referral system of the Taiwanese healthcare system. As a consequence of ease of accessibility to medical specialists, it is found that the role of the gatekeeper family doctors is interfered with thus becoming weak. Taiwanese have the ability to choose their healthcare providers in a free manner. Huge medical institutions are able to operate at full capacity ranging from admission of patients thus patients find it hard to get admitted in these institutions. Due to the adoption of this medical system in Taiwan, individuals tend to overuse the available medical resources As a consequence, most patients are able to consume cheap pills and they do so
Introduction
In 1995, Taiwan adopted a national health insurance structure which was a government administered national system of healthcare (Wu and Cheng, 2017). Among the characteristics of the Taiwan system include brief waiting periods, good accessibility, population coverage that is comprehensive, costs that are relatively low and a databank for national health insurance that is able to plan, monitor and evaluate heath services. Presently, almost all the standard healthcare services that are preventive in Taiwan are free. By examining the rates of utilization of free preventive care services, policy makers have the ability to gain specific insight into the manner in which consumers are able to respond to changes in prices in medical services that are preventive as a consequence of reforms in the healthcare sector. Among the strengths of the Taiwanese health system include a good accessibility whereby there is a high approval rate …show more content…
Taiwanese citizens often take medicines or seek medical assistance in a frequent manner, even for minor sicknesses (Duckett et al., 2016). Ultimately, the medical resources in Taiwan get overused. Another weakness is the weak referral system of the Taiwanese healthcare system. As a consequence of ease of accessibility to medical specialists, it is found that the role of the gatekeeper family doctors is interfered with thus becoming weak. Taiwanese have the ability to choose their healthcare providers in a free manner. Huge medical institutions are able to operate at full capacity ranging from admission of patients thus patients find it hard to get admitted in these institutions. Due to the adoption of this medical system in Taiwan, individuals tend to overuse the available medical resources As a consequence, most patients are able to consume cheap pills and they do so