In coordination with the organizational reformation of the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) has integrated existing health services of the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan, with social administration services of the Ministry of the Interior, and was officially formed on July 23, bringing in the new era of MHW. In line with the MHW formation, the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI), a third-level subordinate under the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan, was also renamed as the ‘National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), Ministry of Health and Welfare’ and became an agency entrusted with both policy planning and implementation. 
In retrospect, BNHI was officially formed on January 1, 1995, and started to implement the National Health Insurance Programme on March 1 the same year. For the last 18 years, average life expectancy of Taiwan’s nationals has increased from 74.5 years in 1994 to 79.16 years in 2011, with an insurance coverage rate of 99.52% and 20,058 contracted hospitals and clinics, which increased the accessibility to medical attention for the public. In terms of health insurance premiums, for every hundred dollars, twenty-seven dollars were allocated to medical care for patients of major diseases and injuries. In addition, 422 million dollars were invested in 2012 for more than 420,000 remote area residents, providing them with persistent and quality medical services, and improving health care for disadvantaged populations by means of various premium subsidy and assistance measures. As a result, over 3 million insured members have enjoyed barrier-free medical services, and the average satisfaction rate on health insurance has maintained at over 70%, making it one of the major social insurance programmes in Taiwan as well as gaining many international acclamations. 
In Executive Yuan’s latest organizational reform, BNHI has neither altered any existing services nor its internal organizational structure, remaining solely in charge of national health insurance without any effect on public rights. All related tasks of the coordinating name-changing to ‘National Health Insurance Administration’ (NHIA), such as plaque preparation, signage replacement, website update, official document system, law amendment, etc., have been carried out as planned and ready for a smooth transition. 
Today, MHW is established with the vision of ‘consolidation of quality, improvement of efficiency, balance of resources, care for the disadvantaged, welfare to society, and feedback to the world,’ and committed to the goal of ‘bringing more efficient and better-quality health care services to all citizens.’ In the spirit of improving health of all citizens and providing perfect medical services, it persistently cares for the health of all, and endeavors to provide the insured with better medical quality, in order to achieve together the MHW vision of promising a healthier, longer, and happier life to all nationals.