I've been wanting to do this 🧵 for a while: Chinese public hospitals, how the Chinese healthcare system is so different from the Western one and why I personally find it awesome.— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) October 24, 2021
It also has some very fair criticisms for the system too of course, but some of these do seem plenty fixable overtime.
this seems to omit that the system is actually pretty similar to the us in terms of billing/insurance, just not as hyper inflated in terms of pricing from what I’ve seen
Like it isn’t socialized and you still need to pay for care/buy insurance unless you want a hefty bill
It's touched on in the last tweet of the thread, and is indeed an area where improvement is needed. The differences in pricing are absolutely massive, though. Nowhere even close to as inflated.
well the price is often in dollars for western ppl to understand and 100 dollars to us is much less than 100 dollars in yuan, but yeah even with that in account it isn’t as insanely inflated
this seems to omit that the system is actually pretty similar to the us in terms of billing/insurance, just not as hyper inflated in terms of pricing from what I’ve seen
Like it isn’t socialized and you still need to pay for care/buy insurance unless you want a hefty bill
It's touched on in the last tweet of the thread, and is indeed an area where improvement is needed. The differences in pricing are absolutely massive, though. Nowhere even close to as inflated.
well the price is often in dollars for western ppl to understand and 100 dollars to us is much less than 100 dollars in yuan, but yeah even with that in account it isn’t as insanely inflated