Does that mean the health care system in Taiwan will go broke in a few years like Medicare?
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>>> There are few programs for the uninsured. The only "programs" in most
>>> states are the fact that if you show up in an emergency room they are
>>> obligated to treat you.
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>>Which is by definition "insurance".
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> They are obligated to treat the emergency. My friend just went to the
> ER for a stomach ache. They decided he wasn't about to die and
> proscribed Maalox and told him that it could be Gall Bladder and told
> him to go to his doctor. They do not have to treat anything that is > not urgent.
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> Having insurance, he went to his doctor and found out that, yes
> indeed, the GB must come out. But the ER isn't going to do it.
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> Taiwan recently instituted national healthcare, based on the best
> available model, Medicare.
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> If only we were advanced enough to do the same.