Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/22
By: Kuan-lin Liu and Yeh Su-ping 

Taipei, May 22 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) extolled the benefits of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance, an example of the universal health coverage (UHC) that the United Nations made one of its sustainable development goals in 2015, in a pre-recorded video played at the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly Tuesday.

The WMA meeting, which is taking place in Geneva concurrently with the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting, from which Taiwan is excluded, allowed Tsai to showcase to physicians from around the world Taiwan’s accessible and affordable health care system that covers Taiwanese nationals as well as foreign workers and legal residents.

According to Tsai, UHC “has unquestionably become the single most powerful message and most unifying keyword in global health.”    [FULL  STORY]