Taiwan’s government is facing new pressures for public healthcare as result of a rapidly increasing healthcare costs and financial imbalances in its National Health Insurance program. Accordingly, analyzing the factors properly is a significant first step in addressing this problem. Graying population in Taiwan is hypothesized as the main reason that accounts for a huge health care expenditure. The sample of population in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance databases together with statistic methods is used to analyze the impact of population aging and to estimate the contributions of population aging shifting to NHI expenditure in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s government is facing new pressures for public healthcare as result of a rapidly increasing healthcare costs and financial imbalances in its National Health Insurance program. Accordingly, analyzing the factors properly is a significant first step in addressing this problem. Graying population in Taiwan is hypothesized as the main reason that accounts for a huge health care expenditure. The sample of population in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance databases together with statistic methods is used to analyze the impact of population aging and to estimate the contributions of population aging shifting to NHI expenditure in Taiwan.

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