RES: Health care in Rural China

Alexandre Fenelon afenelon at zaz.com.br
Tue Feb 18 17:47:56 PST 2003


-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Ulhas Joglekar Enviada em: terça-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2003 22:16 Para: lbo-talk Assunto: Health care in Rural China

Economist.com

Health care in China

Physician, heal thyself

Feb 6th 2003 | BEIJING
>From The Economist print edition

Rural health care is collapsing in China. Will privatisation be the answer?

http://www.economist.com/World/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1566773

-Privatization is NEVER the answer for health care....

Privatisation, or at least greater private involvement, may therefore have a lot to be said for it. In Huailai County of Hebei Province, 75 km (45 miles) north-west of Beijing, officials quietly decided four years ago to allow township hospitals to be taken over by private contractors. Hospital staff there say treatment costs remain the same, but far more people use the facilities because of improved service and investment in new equipment.

-Typical neoliberal crap. SOMEONE will pay for that new investment, so costs will rise. -Wonder who will pay....



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