After labor law, now health care under public scrutiny

China needs a 'Sicko' too
via WikipediaThe world has some major problems nowadays, but I was still amazed that the public discussion about China's health care systems got so little attention. When you talk about human rights, health care is a basic one, and China has outside the big cities notably a health care that could not even beat the poorest African countries in its quality.
In the cities, the health care is so corrupt that only money drives the decision makers, including the doctors. Because their salaries are very low, all their purchasing and medical decision are based on the question whether they can make money on it, not whether they heal the patient. Of course, the pharmaceutical industry and other corporate players have huge interests here, but a work-over of the whole industry is long overdue.
The Economic Observer (note that publication, if you have not done so) is summarizing the debate that delivered now a draft which is so much a compromise of different interest, the result is rather incomprehensible.

"Full of technical and obscure terms," said one source after reading the 13,000-word draft, adding he failed to comprehend the document fully despite having graduated in pharmacy studies and gained a MBA from Tsinghua University, one of the most prestigious colleges in China.

This subject deserves more interest than it is getting now.

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