Volume 18, Issue 4

𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲:This special issue focuses on the discrepancy between Asian nations’ discourse in extending healthcare to all and their actual implementation of such healthcare. The cover image is from a protest against health insurance budget reforms in Taiwan on April 20, 2005, capturing the tensions embedded in the multiple contradictions with health insurance reforms: governments claiming budget constraints as they promoted universal care; doctors unhappy with their salaries and the care they expect to provide with existing resources; some patients having limited access to the care they need in allegedly universal healthcare systems. 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁: IMAGE ID: RP6DRMVYXEAA. Reuters Pictures. This news photo has been authorized for use on the cover of EASTS by Reuters’ agency in Taiwan, TPG Images (https://www.tpgimages.com/). https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCIX7XJZL3F&SMLS=1&RW=1145&RH= 724&POPUPPN=35&POPUPIID=2C0408L8V0KU