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...health expenditures - two times more than other countries - there is a real problem with cost, access and appropriate use of drugs which is often driven by the profits gained from over-prescription," says Dr. Lincoln Chen, president of the China Medical Board, a U.S.-based foundation that promotes health care in Asia...
...China could once boast of great strides in public health during the Maoist era. Through focusing on primary care and prevention, China was able to control widespread diseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis. Although China remained poor and lacked the top-flight facilities of developed nations, it was able to raise life expectancy from...
...part of the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the country privatized vast portions of its health care system. The same market forces that helped China become an economic giant have undermined its health care system. Central government funding plunged, and citizens are expected to make up much of the difference out of their own pockets. During the 1990s alone the average percentage of expenses that individuals had to pay themselves rose...
...Under the latest reforms, annual health care subsidies will increase from about $12 per person to $18. But while the coverage may approach universality throughout China's population, experts say that the country will still have to work on providing quality care. "There remains the challenge to improve access to high quality care," says Barber. "Once patients have access to health services, it is essential to ensure that the quality of health care is high and qualified staff are available...
...government has warned that it doesn't expect to provide "safe, effective, convenient and affordable" health care to all citizens until 2020. Over the first three years of the plan, more than 60% of the costs will be borne by provincial and local governments. That burden will increase after 2011, meaning poorer western regions may be slower to achieve the blueprint's goals. "Health care reform is a long-term process," deputy finance minister Wang Jun told a news conference April 8. "It is impossible to invest the money today and make tangible process tomorrow...