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How real are Beijing’s healthcare plans?

  • Published 17 Apr 2009

Chinese health policy experts give their view on Beijing's recently announced healthcare reforms.

Last week, Beijing announced its long-awaited healthcare reform ambitions, pledging to provide "effective, accessible and affordable" health services to China's 1.3bn citizens by 2020. It added that Rmb 850bn ($124.4bn, €94.4bn, £83bn), which includes Rmb 331.8m from central government coffers, will be spent through to 2011 to kick-start the plans. It hopes to provide universal access to basic health insurance, develop grassroots-level hospitals and clinics, and reform state-run hospitals and the drug supply system – ensuring that public hospitals and clinics provide essential medicines at regulated prices.

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