Book contents
- China’s Public Finance
- Endorsement on Back Cover
- China’s Public Finance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- About the Author
- 1 An Overview of China’s Public Finance
- 2 The Fall and Rise of Government Revenue
- 3 Value-Added Tax, Consumption Tax, and Other Taxes on Goods and Services
- 4 Individual Income Tax Reforms
- 5 Corporate Income Tax in China
- 6 The Size and Structure of Government Expenditure
- 7 Infrastructure Development and Financing
- 8 Social Security Reforms
- 9 Healthcare Reforms
- 10 China’s Growing Local Government Debt
- 11 Fiscal Relationship between the Central and Local Governments
- 12 Fiscal Reform for Equitable and Sustainable Growth
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
9 - Healthcare Reforms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
- China’s Public Finance
- Endorsement on Back Cover
- China’s Public Finance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- About the Author
- 1 An Overview of China’s Public Finance
- 2 The Fall and Rise of Government Revenue
- 3 Value-Added Tax, Consumption Tax, and Other Taxes on Goods and Services
- 4 Individual Income Tax Reforms
- 5 Corporate Income Tax in China
- 6 The Size and Structure of Government Expenditure
- 7 Infrastructure Development and Financing
- 8 Social Security Reforms
- 9 Healthcare Reforms
- 10 China’s Growing Local Government Debt
- 11 Fiscal Relationship between the Central and Local Governments
- 12 Fiscal Reform for Equitable and Sustainable Growth
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 9 is on healthcare reforms. First, it examines different government health insurance programs: the new rural cooperative medical system, health insurance for urban workers, health insurance for urban residents, health insurance for government employees, and health insurance for urban and rural residents. Next, it analyzes the healthcare supply system, particularly the state-owned hospitals (SOHs). Then, it scrutinizes the problems with the healthcare system, including under-developed healthcare insurance, heavy government subsidies to SOHs, excessive government intervention in healthcare service provisions, the shortage of qualified doctors, urban-rural healthcare disparity, and unsustainability of the healthcare insurance system. Finally, it offers policy suggestions on healthcare reforms.
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- China's Public FinanceReforms, Challenges, and Options, pp. 267 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022