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Is Chinese Hospital Reform lagging because the Chinese don’t know any better?

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on February 5, 2010. Filed under China, News Items. 5 Comments.
The Chinese are fully aware that there are better ways to do things. For that matter, so are Americans. Unfortunately for both, actually bringing about change is difficult. The reason that graft in the provision of prescription medications is tolerated has to do with compensation mechanisms for doctors. The PRC statement did a marvelous job of understating this huge issue, only saying that compensation mechanisms for doctors had to be “perfected”.