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The Development and Challenges in Health Care Policy and Health Care Financing in Contemporary China

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China’s market-oriented reform has had great success in the past few decades. Along with the rapid economic growth of the country, the economic development also influenced various aspects of China’s social, economical, and political life. Recent debate has criticized the overheated market reform in social provision, thus arguing for the return of government interventions. However, in the health care sector, it is inappropriate to attribute all distortions to market imperfection. It is rather the design of the health care system and the lack of government interventions in regulating the health care market that obstruct the functions of health care provision. To examine the proposed hypotheses, the paper focuses on China’s medical care provision, evaluating the actual performance of China’s medical care provision in the environment of economic transition from a multidimensional analysis, hence providing forward-looking suggestions for the design of China’s health care provision. Findings from this study indicate that government interventions are indispensable in regulating the health care market as well as ensuring health care delivery.

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    Yang Wei

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Wei, Y. The Development and Challenges in Health Care Policy and Health Care Financing in Contemporary China. Transit Stud Rev 16, 328–342 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11300-009-0062-5

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