"Unreasonably low payments have already seriously distorted the whole medical system," says Huang Ching-shui, chief of surgery at Cathay General. Given how low universal health insurance "technical value" is for surgery, "compared to what it costs for devices like an ESWL [for breaking up kidney stones without surgery], human labor is really undervalued," he avers.
「給付不合理已嚴重扭曲整個醫療體系」，國泰醫院外科部主任黃清水指出，健保給付給外科的技術費嚴重偏低，「跟儀器診療如磁波碎石機等比較，人工顯得太沒價值。」他說。