Foreign residents’ newborns to be eligible for health insurance

The China Post
Date: November 7, 2017
By: Wang Cheng-chung and Frances Huang

TAIPEI (CNA) – Taiwan’s lawmakers amended the National Health Insurance Act on Tuesday to allow newborn babies of foreign residents in the country to be covered by the compulsory health insurance plan upon birth.

The newly revised health insurance rule reverses the current situation in which foreign parents with resident status in Taiwan can only obtain health insurance for babies six months after they are born.

The revision will take affect as soon as it goes through the routine step of being officially announced by the Presidential Office.

The amendment was considered because of concerns that the health of infants of legal foreign residents could suffer without coverage under the national insurance plan during the six-month vacuum.    [FULL  STORY]