Title

Managed care systems in the people's republic of China

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2001

Abstract

Ever since the launching of market-oriented reforms in China in the late 1970s, re-forming the health care financing system, especially in the urban areas, has been on the agenda of the Chinese government. Run-away health care costs have reached crisis proportions for many state enterprises and government units. Health care cost escalation with an annual rate of increase in excess of 20% per year was common for many Chinese cities in the 1980s...

Source Publication

Remaking China's Public Management

First Page

133

Last Page

150

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