The NHIB says that the reason for the increase in the co-payment is to reduce the number of routine patients visiting the core health-care-providing institutions in order to increase the willingness of those institutions to provide more care to emergency and seriously ill patients.
至於民眾就醫自付的「部分負擔」，健保局以減少大型醫院門診量，以提高大型醫院照顧急重症病人的意願為由，提高了民眾到醫學中心、區域醫院就醫的部分負擔額度。