Most members of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Committee support a proposal to stop overseas Taiwanese from suspending NHI premium payments and immediately resuming coverage upon returning to Taiwan, committee Executive Secretary Chou Shu-wan (周淑婉) said on Friday.
The committee convened earlier that day to review those and several other measures proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to remedy the NHI’s budget deficit also in principle supports raising the highest premium band, which has remained at NT$182,000 (US$6,495) for 12 years, to NT$219,500, she said.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) in late 2020 said that