How Taiwan transformed its health care system
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Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#2Taiwan has a growing physician shortage …
This does not seem like a positive lesson.
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#3Taiwan's health care system is quite comprehensive, coverage includes annual eye examination, teeth cleaning, etc. And, I don't remember paying much for it.
People usually go straight to the hospital instead of visiting their family doctors. Most checkups (e.g. X-ray, blood check) are done at the hospital; no need to do mulitple trips. I actually prefer Taiwan's system over Canada's.
The thing is, Taiwan's system is relatively newer (the same with their subway). It is difficult to compare.
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#4>Today, most hospitals in Taiwan remain privately owned, mostly nonprofit. Most physicians are still either salaried or self-employed in practices.
What they didn't mention, is that often med students get their studies paid by one of the hospitals and then are tied to that hospital up to 7-ish years at depressed salaries --which is likely contributing to the shortage.
>Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.
Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please.
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#5>Today, most hospitals in Taiwan remain privately owned, mostly nonprofit. Most physicians are still either salaried or self-employed in practices. What they didn't mention, is that often med students get their studies paid by one of the hospitals and then are tied to that hospital up to 7-ish years at depressed salaries --which is likely contributing to the shortage. >Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.…
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please.
Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#6>Today, most hospitals in Taiwan remain privately owned, mostly nonprofit. Most physicians are still either salaried or self-employed in practices. What they didn't mention, is that often med students get their studies paid by one of the hospitals and then are tied to that hospital up to 7-ish years at depressed salaries --which is likely contributing to the shortage. >Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.…
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please. Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.
Sure, but I expect the NYT to use native Eng speakers who understand that "its" does not work that way. It's just sloppy of them.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please. Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.
Sure, but I expect the NYT to use native Eng speakers who understand that "its" does not work that way. It's just sloppy of them.
>that "its" does not work that way.
Can you expand on what the mistake is?
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#8>Today, most hospitals in Taiwan remain privately owned, mostly nonprofit. Most physicians are still either salaried or self-employed in practices. What they didn't mention, is that often med students get their studies paid by one of the hospitals and then are tied to that hospital up to 7-ish years at depressed salaries --which is likely contributing to the shortage. >Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.…
It's pretty clear what they're referring to. Consider the title of the article.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but I expect the NYT to use native Eng speakers who understand that "its" does not work that way. It's just sloppy of them.
>that "its" does not work that way. Can you expand on what the mistake is?
It's missing the antecedent.
So for this to make sense in Eng it should read:
Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [own|healthcare|something] top to bottom.
Otherwise it looks like "Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [top] [to [the] bottom]."
Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
>that "its" does not work that way. Can you expand on what the mistake is?
It's missing the antecedent. So for this to make sense in Eng it should read: Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [own|healthcare|something] top to bottom. Otherwise it looks like "Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [top] [to [the] bottom]."
>It's missing the antecedent. So for this to make sense in Eng it should read:
It's not missing the antecedent, it's near the end of the previous sentence, just like the other person you replied to said.
Singapore, which we wrote about in October, tinkers with its health care system all the time. Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.
The its clearly refers to health care system from the previous sentence.