China's healthcare more accessible

[OhioChick]

Updated: 2011-09-23 07:40

BOSTON - China's reform of its healthcare system has put it on the right path, Health Minister Chen Zhu told the Harvard America-China Health Summit in Boston on Wednesday.

The plan has lowered medical expenses for Chinese patients and has made healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable, Chen said.

As part of the plan, the government has spent at least 850 billion yuan ($133.2 billion) to improve the healthcare system between 2009 and 2011, which had lowered the cost of essential medicines by at least 30 percent.

Chen also said the wide gap between health services in rural and urban areas is slowly closing and government subsidies for subscribers to the new rural medical plan are 10 times higher than subsidies in 2003.

More: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/23/content_13775119.htm

Snip~ "China's reform of its healthcare system, dubbed "Healthy China 2020", began three years ago and aims to provide universal national health service."

[dorksied]

1. The USA ruled the last century... witness now the rise of CHINA.

Sure, they've got their problems... human rights issues and such... but so did we, a century ago. I'm betting that China is going to take over the world... and I don't know anymore if that'll be a bad thing, considering the issues that plague our government currently.

[Peter1x9]

2. Not much difference.

Over here we have plutocrats running the government for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Over in china the communists run the government for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else.

The only real differences between the two countries are the human rights and wages but ours are slowly decreasing and theirs are very slowly increasing.

[cutlassmama]

3. Let's hope we don't execute our prisoners at the rate they do.

[4dsc]

4. 70% of Chinese people don't have health care insurance

Their system is a sham.