Needless to say, such actions did not consider the needs of patients. It got to the point where more than 5000 clinics from across Taiwan together sent in applications to leave the National Health Insurance system. Even students of medicine and pharmacology joined their voices to the conflicting choruses of protest.
雙方不約而同地走上街頭，不惜以休診、罷診為抗爭手段，將病人的權益置於一旁，甚至全省五千多家診所還一起呈交退出健保的委託書，連尚在學校裡的醫學系和藥學系學生也群起聲援。