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How important is the state in the delivery of public services? Introduction Public services delivery always plays an important role in a country because it can help to stabilise the society. Public service is generally defined as the services or public goods that are funded by public money. Public services can be delivered by government, public sector or authorized private sector to the citizen. There are two characteristics of public services, non-excludability and non-competitiveness. The former one means as long as the service exists, everyone in the society can use it; the latter means an individual’s behaviour will not influence whole system. There are three main types of public services: maintainability, economy and social public services. This paper is going to talking about the social public services – health care system because health issues are the most relative to our daily life, the awareness of health is rising and people start pursuing the efficiency of investment insurance. However, health care is also one of the most controversial issues. The reasons why it became so important among developed countries are because aging population, innovation of new medical technology, high demand and political factors. (Blank & Burau, 2010) Moreover, design a universal health care system needs authorized from the government, which means the government has power to control the market or a system. After the international politics entered a new era called ‘globalization’, many scholars disagreed with regulation. Lodge and Wegrich (2012) pointed out 4 positions about the problems of regulation. However, ‘normative regulation’ explained not everything is suit for deregulation, such as health insurance, public transportation, energy ... ... middle of paper ... ...eng, T.-M. (2003). Taiwan's New National Health Insurance Program: Genesis And Experience So Far. At the Intersection of Health, Health Care and Policy, 22(3), 61-76. Hoban, R. (2008). Different Cultures, Different Systems: Comparing Health Care in the U.S. and Taiwan. North Carolina: North Carolina Health News. Kaiser Family Fund. (2012, July). Health-cost. Retrieved from Kaiser Family Foundation : http://kff.org/health-costs/ Lu , J., & Hsiao, W. (2003). Does universal health insurance make health care unaffordable? Lessons from Taiwan. Health Affairs, 77-88. Madrian, B. C. (2006, January ). THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND LABOR MARKETS. Cambridge, MA: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH. World Health Organization. (2013, June). Global Health Expenditure Database. Retrieved from World Health Organization: http://apps.who.int/nha/database/DataExplorerRegime.aspx

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