Comment by ilamont

Taiwan has a solid national health insurance plan. The number of small and medium sized businesses is very high for a country with a working age population of 16 million people:

Taiwan boasted more than 1.59 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to the White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan, 2022. This accounts for more than 98 percent of all enterprises, an all-time high. Further, SMEs employed 9.2 million people, representing more than 80 percent of the total workforce.

https://www.moea.gov.tw/MNS/english/news/News.aspx?kind=6&me...

I think the official number undercounts the many micro-businesses that exist around the food industry, markets, and services.