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See the most common hospital mishaps.
On July 7, thousands of club-wielding Han Chinese mobilized on the streets, clearly intent on revenge. Military police blocked them from moving south into Uighur neighborhoods, at times firing tear gas. Xinjiang People's Hospital in the city center took in at least a dozen Uighurs who were beaten...
But healing the wounds of the past week will be much tougher. Li Qingcheng, a 43-year-old Han bus driver, suffered injuries to his head, back and hands when a mob of Uighur men attacked his bus during the riot on July 5. He said the men smashed the...
A major problem with American health care today is what policy experts call "perverse incentives." Doctors and hospitals bill insurers for every individual service - every office visit, MRI or hour of operating-room time - a "fee for service" model that drives health-care inflation by rewarding providers who order potentially...
Still, overhauling the current health-payment system has other pitfalls. Back in 1983, Medicare initiated a similar plan, bundling payments for hospital stays, but the program acquired the unfortunate label "quicker but sicker." Since hospitals were paid a certain amount of money for each patient no matter how long they...