In addition, the payment system, which encourages outpatient treatment over hospital stays (outpatient treatment accounts for about 70 % of NHI's medical expenditures), has hospitals earning most of their money from their outpatient clinics, making them less willing to invest in equipment to treat serious illnesses.
此外，重門診、輕住院的支付制度（門診費用佔健保醫療費用七成左右），造成各醫院都在賺門診的錢，而不願投資重症醫療設施。