Most Taiwanese are satisfied with the National Health Insurance (NHI) system, the National Health Insurance Administration’s (NHIA) latest annual poll released on Tuesday showed.
In the poll conducted by the National Yang-Ming University, 89.7 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied with the system, while 8.1 percent were not.
The three main reasons for the high rate of satisfaction were easy access to medical care, low copayments and reasonable premiums, NHIA Director-General Lee Po-chang (李伯璋) said.
More than 70 percent of the respondents said “most of the time,” they could discuss their treatment with doctors when they seek medical attention.
Eighty percent said they usually seek treatment at their nearest clinic, which then determines if they need to visit a hospital.
The survey was conducted from July 1 to Sept. 10 on randomly selected adults via telephone calls and online questionnaires, and collected 7,234 valid samples.
South Korean K-pop girl group Blackpink are to make Kaohsiung the first stop on their Asia tour when they perform at Kaohsiung National Stadium on Oct. 18 and 19, the event organizer said yesterday. The upcoming performances will also make Blackpink the first girl group ever to perform twice at the stadium. It will be the group’s third visit to Taiwan to stage a concert. The last time Blackpink held a concert in the city was in March 2023. Their first concert in Taiwan was on March 3, 2019, at NTSU Arena (Linkou Arena). The group’s 2022-2023 “Born Pink” tour set a
CPBL players, cheerleaders and officials pose at a news conference in Taipei yesterday announcing the upcoming All-Star Game. This year’s CPBL All-Star Weekend is to be held at the Taipei Dome on July 19 and 20.
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s decision that ruled in favor of former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) regarding the legitimacy of her doctoral degree. The issue surrounding Tsai’s academic credentials was raised by former political talk show host Dennis Peng (彭文正) in a Facebook post in June 2019, when Tsai was seeking re-election. Peng has repeatedly accused Tsai of never completing her doctoral dissertation to get a doctoral degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984. He subsequently filed a declaratory action charging that
The Hualien Branch of the High Court today sentenced the main suspect in the 2021 fatal derailment of the Taroko Express to 12 years and six months in jail in the second trial of the suspect for his role in Taiwan’s deadliest train crash. Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), the driver of a crane truck that fell onto the tracks and which the the Taiwan Railways Administration's (TRA) train crashed into in an accident that killed 49 people and injured 200, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in the first trial by the Hualien District Court in 2022. Hoa Van Hao, a
RSS