William C. Hsiao

TL;DR: The pace of reform should be moderated to allow service providers to develop absorptive capacity, and independent, outcome-based monitoring and evaluation by a third-party are essential for mid-course correction of the plans and to make officials and providers accountable.

TL;DR: The authors describe the deterioration of China's health care system in the 1980s and 1990s in the context of privatization of the Chinese economy and the Chinese government's current efforts to address the crisis.

TL;DR: It is found that Taiwan's single-payer NHI system enabled Taiwan to manage health spending inflation and that the resulting savings largely offset the incremental cost of covering the previously uninsured.

TL;DR: It is argued that unless China tackles the root cause of unaffordable health care--rapid cost inflation caused by an irrational and wasteful health care delivery system--much of the new money is likely to be captured by providers as higher income and profits.

TL;DR: In this paper, a resource-based relative-value scale was developed as an alternative to the system of payment based on charges for physicians' services Resource inputs by physicians include (1) total work input performed by the physician for each service; (2) practice costs, including malpractice premiums; and (3) the cost of specialty training.