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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