Taiwan proves
Emeline Han 20, research assistant at the National University of Singapore, June 27, 2020, “The resilience of Taiwan's health system to address the COVID-19 pandemic”, eClinicalMedicine, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320260/, DJL
The American experience is a reminder that lack of health insurance for large parts of the population is a major barrier to mounting an effective outbreak response [5]. Taiwan has a single-payer national health insurance (NHI) scheme that covers more than 99% of the population, and emergency funding has been approved to support COVID-19 prevention efforts and affected industries [6].
Taiwan's hospitals currently have sufficient isolation rooms for confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19. To minimise cross-infection, hospitals implemented strict triage and entrance control. To control community spread, local governments are responsible for contact tracing, quarantine enforcement and risk assessment in community settings [4].