China plans to nationalize health care

October 21, 2008

China’s current system is profit-driven, fee-for-service on steroids. Doctors overtly prescribe the most expensive, costly treatment to maximize revenue.

It’s going to be a huge undertaking to transform China’s system to one that is government-run. It helps to have a Communist government to crush dissent, but that’s probably the only way a country of that size can do it. (via the WSJ Health Blog)



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1 Anonymous October 21, 2008 at 11:28 pm

China has a MUCH WORSE health care system than the US. China does not offer any free or subsidized health care to the poor, not even to its infants or children.

http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/0035.html

And if you scroll down about 3/4 down of page in the next link, look at the child’s hands. You will never find this in the US.

http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/peasant-girl-my-life-is-miserable-because-i-am-poor/

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