Word: hong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...addition, there is no standardized or guaranteed basic health care, which means middle-class Hong Kong residents must shop around among doctors who will charge widely varying rates for the same procedure and poor patients often go untreated...
After viewing drafts of the report, Hong Kong doctors responded angrily, calling Hsiao's comments ridiculous and impossible and defending their commitment to quality care...
...funding health care reform with the Medicare-style tax revenue, Hong Kong hopes to remedy the inconsistent quality of care provided by public and private hospitals...
Doctors both in America and Hong Kong say Hsiao, trained as an economist, is largely ignorant of the realities of practicing medicine...