China State Council Solicits Public Opinion Again For Healthcare Reform Plan
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
China's State Council has decided to solicit public opinion again to deepen its health care reform proposal. The draft spells out the reform's direction, objective, principles and key measures, with the overall goal of building up the basic healthcare system to cover both urban and rural residents by 2020. In the near term, the government will focus on five areas: (1) speeding up the guaranteed coverage of healthcare; (2) building a national basic medicine system; (3) completing health care service system at the primary level; (4) promoting uniform basic healthcare service; and (5) pushing reform pilots in public hospitals. A reform participant discloses that the proposal comprises a health reform framework and a complementary set of documents, with the latter detailing specific measures for implementation. (Click here for more - Chinese Language)