China Proposes Universal Health Insurance

The National Reform Commission (NDRC) of China has proposed sweeping changes in the country’s healthcare policy, establishing as a policy the goal of covering all 1.3 billion of China’s citizens with medical insurance by 2020 and 90% of the population within just two years. In the past twenty years, China’s healthcare has swung from government-controlled to market-oriented. As an unintended result of the new direction, rural citizens currently suffer from much lower levels of medical care delivery, and all of the population, urban and rural, is upset about its cost. More details...