Oral History Interview with Tsung-Mei Cheng

Abstract

Tsung-Mei Cheng is an American health policy research analyst at Princeton University. Together with her husband, Uwe E. Reinhardt of Princeton University, Cheng provided critical advice to the Taiwanese government in establishing a single-payer national health insurance system in 1995. She has given numerous talks around the world on issues relating to health care and health policy, including the United States, China, Taiwan, Japan, countries in Southeast Asia, Europe, Mexico, and the Middle East. Cheng is a regular commentator in domestic and international news media on health care in China, Taiwan and the United States, as well as the recent COVID crisis. She was the lead witness in a 2014 U.S. Senate hearing on universal healthcare and appeared in “Sick Around the World,” a 2008 Frontline documentary by the Public Broadcasting Corporation.