Bringing single-payer health care to Vermont
Vermont faces big challenges as it plans to institute the nation’s first and only single-payer health care system by 2017. An April 9, 2014 Vox.com article about Vermont’s experience exploring how best to structure the government-run plan—and how…
Working the (health) system
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] A standard medical test that could have been done for a tenth of the cost. A doctor’s momentary lapse in attention that led to grievous injury—or even death. An upside-down health care bureaucracy that…
The art of getting things done
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] On January 19, 2011, HSPH professor William Hsiao walked onto the podium in the well of the Vermont State House. Before him sat both chambers of the state legislature. Above him stood hundreds of…
Hsiao helps Vermont overhaul its health care system
Profile in The Harvard Crimson, December 7, 2011, featuring HSPH's William Hsiao
Alumni Weekend 2011
September 28, 2011 -- HSPH Alumni Gather From Around the World In a festive annual reunion, 160 Harvard School of Public Health alumni, students, and guests gathered at the School on September 23–25 to reconnect with former classmates, network,…
Indonesian Minister of Health discusses challenges of implementing health reform
July 15, 2011 Improving access to health care for more than 237 million people spread across the sprawling 17,000-plus island Republic of Indonesia is fraught with logistical and political challenges, Dr. Endang R. Sedyaningsih, MPH ’92, SD ’97, Minister…
Hsiao helps Vermont overhaul its health care system
The economic climate and demographic shifts around the globe have pushed the work of William Hsiao, the K.T. Li professor of economics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), to the forefront of international health policy, impacting millions…
Health reform news: HSPH Prof recommends single-payer health care system for Vermont
Last year, Harvard School of Public Health economist William Hsiao was commissioned by the Vermont state legislature to design three options for reforming the state health care system. Hsiao, who helped design a single-payer system for Taiwan and…
Reforming Vermont's health care system won't be cheap, says HSPH prof
HSPH Prof. William Hsiao, who is serving as a consultant on health system reform for the Vermont State Legislature, recently provided a status report on his findings. He told an oversight committee that the system is broken and…
China's leaders, HSPH experts unite in health reform effort
[ Spring 2009 ] At the height of China's SARS outbreak in the spring of 2003, with Beijing reporting hundreds of new cases a day, Yuanli Liu woke up at 3 a.m. in Boston to a ringing telephone. On the line was…
