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Journal Article
Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities
2008
Overview
China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the setbacks of recent decades, are substantial: high levels of out-of-pocket payments and cost escalation, stalled progress in providing adequate health insurance for all, widespread inefficiencies in health facilities, uneven quality, extensive inequality, and perverse incentives for hospitals and doctors. China's leadership is taking bold steps to accelerate improvement, including increasing government spending on health and committing to reaching 100% insurance coverage by 2010. China's efforts are part of a worldwide transformation in the financing of health care that will dominate global health in the 21st century. The prospects that China will complete this transformation successfully in the next two decades are good, although success is not guaranteed. The real test, as other countries have experienced, will come when tougher reforms have to be introduced.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd,Lancet,Elsevier Limited
Subject
Biological and medical sciences
/ China
/ Government Programs - economics
/ Government Programs - statistics & numerical data
/ Government Programs - trends
/ Health Care Reform - economics
/ Health Care Reform - statistics & numerical data
/ Healthcare Disparities - economics
/ Humans
/ National Health Programs - economics
/ National Health Programs - statistics & numerical data
/ National Health Programs - trends
/ Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
/ Reforms
