- Jul 2018
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On 2016 Oct 19, DP Zhou commented:
China's fragile health insurance system can not serve the health system. Patients are forced to spend all their savings to buy medicines in cash with no insurance coverage. For most families, one cancer patient means the bankruptcy of the whole family. In such despair, many patients choose to extort the doctors and the hospitals as the last option to recover some cost of medicines.
The health insurance system in China is a sensitive issue. The state-provided insurance is not covering major illnesses. The private insurance is poor-quality and mostly abused by finance institutions in real estate investment and other speculations.
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- Feb 2018
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europepmc.org europepmc.org
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On 2016 Oct 19, DP Zhou commented:
China's fragile health insurance system can not serve the health system. Patients are forced to spend all their savings to buy medicines in cash with no insurance coverage. For most families, one cancer patient means the bankruptcy of the whole family. In such despair, many patients choose to extort the doctors and the hospitals as the last option to recover some cost of medicines.
The health insurance system in China is a sensitive issue. The state-provided insurance is not covering major illnesses. The private insurance is poor-quality and mostly abused by finance institutions in real estate investment and other speculations.
This comment, imported by Hypothesis from PubMed Commons, is licensed under CC BY.
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