Huang, Bo: China’s Health Care System Lacks Fairness and Justice
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Date: 6/9/2011 5:13:32 PM
Sender: Huang, Bo
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Huang, Bo: China’s Health Care System Lacks Fairness and Justice
黄波（Huang，Bo）
In 2000, in a ranking of World Health Organization members’ health financing and justice, China ranked 188th, the fourth from the bottom among the 191 members. What causes the appealing “fourth from the bottom”?
According to China Youth Daily: Vice-Minister of Health Yin, Daque used to disclose at China Europe International Business School Health Industry Forum that, in the annual medical expense of China, 80% of which has been used on 8.5 million government and Party officials, the rest of 1.3 billion people have to share the 20% expense. What makes it worse is that, according to a survey conducted by Professor Xiao, Qinglun in Harvard School of Public Health that comparing public health investment among the counties around the world, China is one of the countries that have least public health investment, the investment is even less than some poor African countries’ investment. The amount of public health investment is small, and 8.5 million government and Party officials take 80% of it, what can the rest of 1.3 billion tax payer get of the 20%? In 2003, the Third National Health Services Survey showed that 48.9% of patients did not receive medical care, 29.6% of patients chose not to be hospitalized when they need to, and 44.8% of urban population and 79.1% of rural population don’t have any medical insurance. Compared with what the 8.5 million officials get, where is the justice of China’s medical care?
In 2010, Health Minister Chen Zhu confessed to the media: In the health care expense of China, government investment is too low. Recalling the commitment made by the government in the last 80’s, which said “We guarantee that everyone has medical insurance by 2000”, it turns out to be only a joke the Chinese Communist Party made to the people.
Huang, Bo
06/09/2011
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