China's healthcare campaign

Reported on 19, April, 2010, Arizona. It is reported that China will widen the coverage of baseline medicines, that is to say, in more than 60% of administrative coverage, the basic healthcare will be gradually practiced. Another change may come out that the structure of state-owned hospitals will undergo a reform, that Chinese are investigating privatize some of the state-owned hospitals to private and lucrative ones.

In China, there are two healthcare systems respectively for the urban and rural citizens. The most challenging is to raise the "insurance medical funds management". To make the urban and rural residents enjoy the same medical insurance under same expenses, a system called "结报(immediate reinburse)". That all the medical expenses are paid by disease and payroll. In the past, tragedies take place when poor families (concentrated in rural areas where there is no complete healthcare reforms) are unable to afford emergencies and chronic diseases, that pacient has no choice rather than wait. China is now investigating a new way to mix the urban and rural area healthcare reforms, seek to find a solution.


An important pace is to change some of the state-owned clinics to private ones and optimize the structure of staff and funds management.

These reforms are firstly trial in only 16 cities in different regions, if the outcome is good, larger coveage will be undergoing.


I am reading also some measures of US healthcare reforms, welcome to anyone who can support with some materials.