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Dr. Adam Powell on healthcare reforms in China and America

Adam Powell, PhD, is a trained healthcare economist with expertise in health IT and health reforms. He is also the President of Payer + Provider, a consulting firm “by Doctors of medicine and research.” Payer + Prov...
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How many patients does the average Chinese doctor see?

I just finished listening to a great presentation by Michigan Law School student Carlos Torrez, on the shortage of doctors in the rural United States. I’ll first put forth some facts highlighted in the presentation, and t...
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From the wire: Healthcare Reform Faces an Uphill Battle

Hat tip to William Albano for sharing this article on twitter. Source: Caijin.com.cn By Caijin.com.cn staff reporters Yang Zhongxu, Weng Shiyou, and Wang Kai China’s healthcare reform program, which launched in the spring of ...
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What does it mean to say that the majority of China’s population has health insurance?

A WSJ article on the reticence of Chinese hospitals to fall in line with the countries 125 billion dollar health reforms made the rounds this week. The essence of the article is that doctors in China’s public hospitals ar...
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The Lancet: China

The Lancet’s China themed issue came out this week, with topics focusing on health care reforms over the last decade, non-communicable disease, and future directions for the improvement of health care quality in China. Al...
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