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Bonus: U.S. State Health Reform
Stacey and Jake are joined by Professor Bill Hsiao.
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After listening to Bonus: U.S. State Health Reform, we hope listeners have a better understanding of what healthcare reform looks like at a State level. You'll learn how Vermont established the foundation for its own Single Payer system and how National health reform and 'marketing' got in the way. Bill worked with Bernie Sanders on Medicare For All and with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin Vermont's Single-Payer healthcare system. Bill now is working with the California State Commission on health reform. You'll hear a bit about Jake and Stacey's home states.
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A summary of Bonus: U.S. State Health Reform and additional learnings can be found down below.
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Thank you for joining us!​
Our Guest
William Hsiao Ph.D.
K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics
Department of Health Policy and Management
Department of Global Health and Population
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William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a fully qualified actuary with extensive experience in private and social insurance. Dr. Hsiao’s health economic and policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations.
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He is a leading global expert in universal health insurance, which he has studied for more than forty years. He has been actively engaged in designing health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for many countries, including the USA, Taiwan, China, Colombia, Poland, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Sweden, Cyprus, Uganda and most recently for Malaysia and South Africa. He also designed a single payer universal insurance model for the state of Vermont which intended to serve as a vanguard for the USA. Vermont passed a law based on his recommendations. However, the recent set-back in Vermont’s economic development has put the implementation of the single-payer system in question.
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To learn more about Professor William Hsiao, please visit the Harvard T.H. Chan Department of Health Policy and Management Faculty page.
Summary
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Additional Learning Sources
What Other States Can Learn from Vermont's Bold Experiment
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Bill Hsiao Has Wise Words on Healthcare
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Bringing Single Payer health care to Vermont
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To Leap to Single Payer: What Taiwan Can Teach
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