Looking back, Yeh Chin-chuan recalls that he was under enormous daily pressure during the months leading up to and following the establishment of the BNHI. He had to manage more than 4000 staff recruited from various departments and institutions, all of whom had to be trained in short order to perform their new duties.
回想全民健保上路前後，葉金川說，當時他每天處於壓力極大的狀態，因為帶領著四千多名從各單位徵調來的員工，必須很快訓練這些「散兵」上場作戰。