China Gets It...Why Doesn't The US?
The Wall Street Journal reports today that China is aiming to improve its health care infrastructure, to expand health insurance for all, and is starting a "decade-long plan to repair an ailing health-care system that has fueled popular discontent."
Gee whiz...what a novel idea. Health care reform as a way of appealing to the masses. Acknowledging that it will take years to reform a broken health system. Working on hospitals, clinics, and the health insurance system at the same time.
If China can do it with a billion people, why can't we?
Summer Johnson, PhD
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(1) What counts as 'doing it'? Giving a baseline of covered services with ridiculously long waiting lists, virtually no physician choice, no practical way to control costs, disincentive to innovate, and lots of essential services not covered at all?
(2) What makes you think they are, in fact, going to do it? This is the same country that refuses to clean up its air and water...how much does it actually care about the health of its people?
- by Charles Camosy, PhD on Apr 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM | link