Lai talks NHI reform with health clinic association

Lai talks NHI reform with health clinic association

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Vice President Lai Ching-te met a national association of health clinics on Monday, to discuss NHI reform. He received representatives of the Taiwan Medical Clinics Association at the Presidential Office. He appealed for help to build a sustainable health care system and to promote industries like health care and biotechnology. Let’s hear from him.

Lai Ching-te
Vice president
Our health care system has come to a point where, in order to ensure its sustainable development, we need to make substantive improvements. That calls for discussions within the health care community. Secondly, we very much want to work with you all to build a healthier Taiwan, by working on health promotion, disease prevention, and improvements to nutrition. Through collaboration across domains, we want to promote industries like health care and biotechnology. These sectors can become another so-called “sacred mountain” – another reason for the international community to embrace Taiwan.

Lai said that, on behalf of President Tsai Ing-wen, he wanted to thank Taiwan’s health clinics. He said that during the pandemic, clinics stood on the front line of the government’s COVID initiatives. They shouldered a heavy burden to help Taiwan overcome the pandemic as a nation, he said.

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賴清德接見診所協會幹部請益健保改革制度

2023-09-18

副總統賴清德今天(18日)接見"中華民國診所協會全國聯合會重要幹部"，期盼與各界共同合作，打造健康台灣，更要同時推動健康、生物科技等產業，成為護國神山。

[[副總統賴清德]]
“健保走到今天，要在下一階段能夠永續發展，恐怕是要有一番改善，這就是需要我們醫界共同來討論，第二個我也非常希望跟大家共同合作，來打造一個健康台灣，包括健康促進，疾病預防，還有營養增進，各方面我們大家跨域合作，健康產業，生物科技產業等等，這樣也有機會成為護國神山，讓國際社會擁抱台灣”

賴清德表示，他要代表總統感謝大家的辛勞，不僅平時守護國人健康，疫情期間也站在第一線協助政府防疫，一肩扛起繁重的工作，讓台灣在全國民眾共同團結下，走過疫情。

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