Professor Huang Wen-hung of the Institute of Health and Welfare Policy at National Yang-Ming University said in a mid-November forum on the NHI payments system that the percentage of GNP accounted for by health-insurance drug payments is by no means excessive, at about 6.2 %, matching OECD levels. The problem is inefficient allocation of resources.
不該給的給太多陽明大學衛生福利研究所教授黃文鴻在 11 月中旬舉辦的「全民健保支付制度論壇」中指出，台灣健保藥費佔國民生產毛額的比例（約 6.2 %）其實並未過高，符合經濟合作與開發組織（OECD）標準，問題出在資源配置的效益不當。