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9 - Healthcare Reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2022

Shuanglin Lin
Affiliation:
Peking University, Beijing
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Chapter 9 is on healthcare reforms. First, it examines different government health insurance programs: the new rural cooperative medical system, health insurance for urban workers, health insurance for urban residents, health insurance for government employees, and health insurance for urban and rural residents. Next, it analyzes the healthcare supply system, particularly the state-owned hospitals (SOHs). Then, it scrutinizes the problems with the healthcare system, including under-developed healthcare insurance, heavy government subsidies to SOHs, excessive government intervention in healthcare service provisions, the shortage of qualified doctors, urban-rural healthcare disparity, and unsustainability of the healthcare insurance system. Finally, it offers policy suggestions on healthcare reforms.

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China's Public Finance
Reforms, Challenges, and Options
, pp. 267 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Healthcare Reforms
  • Shuanglin Lin, Peking University, Beijing
  • Book: China's Public Finance
  • Online publication: 22 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099028.010
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  • Healthcare Reforms
  • Shuanglin Lin, Peking University, Beijing
  • Book: China's Public Finance
  • Online publication: 22 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099028.010
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  • Healthcare Reforms
  • Shuanglin Lin, Peking University, Beijing
  • Book: China's Public Finance
  • Online publication: 22 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099028.010
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