Word: health
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...addition, there is no standardized or guaranteed basic health care, meaning problems for the poor and middle-class Hong Kong residents who must shop around among doctors who will charge widely varying rates for the same procedure...
...papers and books on the topic, Hsiao said Medicare and the health care industry in general gave doctors little motivation to use less expensive means of treatment when more costly ones were available...
However, his current area of expertise is in East Asia, where he is collaborating with UNICEF on a country-wide study of health care for the 100 million poor Chinese...
...Hong Kong government--the territory, long a British colony, reverted back to Chinese possession in 1997--commissioned Hsiao to review its health care system in late 1997. The commission was made in response to rising medical costs...
...basic standard of care--moving towards a system like the American one where certain health care services are provided free to the poor--will likely also be part of Hsiao's proposal...