It also has some very fair criticisms for the system too of course, but some of these do seem plenty fixable overtime.
Yeah there are clearly so many issues that need to be fixed, but it certainly has many advantages as well especially for the average person.
The same person has another thread touching on this, according to which the difference in price (even adjusting for income) is multiple orders of magnitude.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1450679576166903812
In the fight against the Covid-19, public hospitals have undertaken the most urgent, most dangerous, and most arduous medical treatment work and played a major role. It is necessary to intensify the construction of public medical and health institutions, promote the construction of county medical communities, improve basic infrastructure conditions, raise the treatment of rural doctors, and improve the ability of grassroots disease prevention, medical treatment and health management.
——On March 6, 2021, Xi Jinping
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
Save for having exams done right after the consultation, what he's describing is not a good system at all.
The way I see it, it places all focus on secondary (established disease) and tertiary (rehabilitation) care, while completely ignoring primary (prevention) care. This means that a lot of people will suffer from chronic, preventable diseases, creating not only unecessary suffering, but also a greater need for expensive exams, medications and interventions.
What he's describing is completely based on profits and not at all on well being. Make sure you fight for a primary care based health system.
