Abstract
Some years ago in New York I went to hear the Taiwanese health minister describe the country's new National Health Service. He had just been to visit George W. Bush's first secretary of health, Tommy Thompson. I could not resist and asked, "While you were in Washington, did you explain to the Republican secretary of health that you've introduced a socialized health system?" He looked me squarely in the eyes and said, "You know, it completely slipped my mind!" And well it might. We have heard much tendentious information about the alleged success of Chile's privatization of social security, but little of the unchallenged efficacy of Taiwan's health service.
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