Bill Hsiao, a respected Harvard China healthcare scholar, along with co-author Winnie Yip, also at Harvard, have in this most recent issue of Health Affairs describe the challenges China faces in healthcare reform very succinctly:“China is at a loss as to how to transform its new money into efficient and effective health care. To tackle the root cause of unaffordable health care—rapid cost inflation caused by an irrational and wasteful health care delivery system, the very same issue confronting the United States—China needs to decide how to reform its health care delivery and payment systems; otherwise, most of the new money is likely to be captured by providers as higher income and profits.”
See my complete post over at the World Health Care Blog
