China’s Health Care Reform Could Save Consumers $1.5 Billion

China announced wide-sweeping health care reforms this week , focusing on building more hospitals, reducing the price of common drugs, banning smoking from public spaces, and increasing state insurance subsidies. China–despite heavy reliance on government funding for social programs–has developed a curiously excessive reliance on the sales of drugs to fund hospitals, a feature of its health care system that doesn’t quite sit right with the nation’s overarching philosophy–or with its citizens. “I think that no matter what kind of hospital, you should rely on medical technology and improved services to gain income,” said Sun Zhigang , the National Development and Reform Commission’s deputy director.

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China’s Health Care Reform Could Save Consumers $1.5 Billion