Mrs Wan-Tsui Chiang1
1National Cheng Kung University Department of Law, Tainan, Taiwan
Biography:
Bio to come
Abstract:
In Taiwan, the Medical Care Act limits the qualification to found medical institutions in order to ease the for- profit tendency of medical care market. However, such strategy does not function well. Medical care foundation founded by business consortiums are manipulated as a part of their business. Also, investors operate clinics and profit via internal contracts even though they are not qualified to establish medical institutions officially under their names. On the other hand, young physicians lose their autonomy in large medical institutions and turn to practice in clinics. Such backgrounds stimulate the phenomenon of lack manpower of primary care and commercialization of medical care. Therefore, the first part of this research will do interviews to testify my observation of the failures of the Medical Care Act to regulate medical institution in Taiwan. Because of such failure, the second part of this research will introduce the concept of health care organizational ethics and the physician/hospital integration models in the U.S.