THE EFFECT OF TAIWAN'S NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ON MORTALITY OF THE ELDERLY: REVISITED
使用更准确的数据重新估计台湾全民健康保险对老年人死亡率的影响，发现该保险使此前未参保老年人的死亡风险平均降低24%，但效果仅体现在保险实施后的前6年。
A recent paper estimates the effects of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) on the elderly and concludes that NHI greatly increased the medical care utilization of the elderly but did not reduce their mortality. Using more recent and more accurate mortality data of the same group of elderly, this note re-estimates the NHI effect on mortality and finds that the mortality hazard of the previously uninsured elderly in the post-NHI period was on average 24% lower than it would have been in the absence of NHI. However, the NHI effect on the mortality hazard is only evident in the first 6 years following the enactment of NHI, suggesting that it may be difficult to undo the damage caused by the lack of insurance in early life.