Taiwan’s healthcare system may not be perfect — but it may just be the world’s best. And the average cost is only US$42 per month.

Grateful for the invitation from Talent Taiwan to share my perspective and extol the virtues of this country’s system. (All views my own.)

Insights from Dr. Betty Tsai 蔡劭承, Chu Yuting 朱昱庭, Jason Chiang, Henrik Hille, and others.

#Taiwan #Healthcare #NHI #TaiwanGoldCard

FULL ARTICLE on Substack: https://talenttaiwan.substack.com/p/the-marvel-of-taiwanese-healthcare

INFO — “Taiwan Healthcare Resource Directory: A Guide for Foreign Communities in Taiwan”: https://talent.nat.gov.tw/en/life/taiwan-healthcare-resource-directory-a-guide-for-foreign-communities-in-taiwan

In this last month, Spanberger in VA and Sherril in NJ have shown that centrists will not save us. Centrists are folding in the moments we need them most. Meanwhile Mamdani in NYC has shown how progressives focused on working families get the job done.

None of this is surprising. Centrism is complicity. Always has been.

40+ states still have primary elections. Elect progressives, elect fighters accountable to working people, not corporate interests.

Returning back with a beak full of Sand Eels.

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943