Socialized medicine, Chinese style
The bragging seems to be about the percentage of urban residents covered by health care and the expenditures for rural residents. No mention of the percentage of rural residents covered. Are they better off than they were with the barefoot "doctors?"Eight mln more Chinese to be covered by health insurance in 2011
Eight million more Chinese will be covered by urban basic health insurance in 2011, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said Wednesday.
That will bring the total number of urban residents covered by health insurance to 440 million, or 90 percent of urban residents…
Regarding rural cooperative health insurance, Chen Zhu, China's health minister, said at the press conference that this year the reimbursement cap for farmers would be raised from 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan (7,600 U.S.dollars), almost ten times that of farmers' average per capita net annual income…
This year, government subsidies for the new rural cooperative medical care system and medical insurance for non-working urban residents will be increased to 200 yuan per person…
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