SHANGHAI Regardless of where you stand on "Obamacare", the ironic term given the attempt of President Barack Obama to mandate health care for Americans, you'll be blown away by the scale of "Chinacare." In just 2 years, China's reform effort of health care has 1.27 billion Chinese to 95% ", the largest medical insurance system in the world" Health Minister Chen Zhu announced by 24 June the population on basic health insurance in the country, creating at the opening session of the Sino-US Symposium 2011 on translational and clinical medicine. And for scientists within China and abroad, the ambitious reform effort is about to get a whole lot more interesting. Chen invited researchers to participate in the 12 planned $ 130 billion overhaul health care. "Science and technology must play a major role in the reform of health care," he said.
Before the Chinese government launched the reform effort in 09, a common complaint, Chen noted, was that it was "too difficult and expensive to see a doctor in the said public hospitals. "one problem was that doctors had a direct interest in more than prescription drugs: for most drugs, Chen said, doctors would receive a 15% commission on the cost of the order." We stopped this practice, "said the minister. Doctors no longer receive a commission on 307 prescription drugs widely used. And over the past two years, Chen said, thousands of county hospitals and village clinics have been renovated. Rapid advances wowed the audience, including John Gallin, director of the US National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. "It is a very impressive achievement," said Science Insider.
The priorities in 2011, the government intends to make progress against two diseases that have hit China hard. hepatitis B and skeletal fluorosis, which is caused by the inhalation of fluorine released by coal stoves house in 2011, China plans to have completed the immunization of 66 million children under 15 years against hepatitis B, and completed the replacement of stoves to 1.63 million households, mainly in the southwest of China.
opportunities abound for biomedical research initiatives, the Minister Health noted. "the spectrum of disease is so diverse. We have everything in China, "said Chen, who welcomes cooperation with foreign researchers. He also cited the need to" strengthen the biobank of China. "" I want to reform health care is better here that he has done for us, "Harry Selker, dean of the Institute clinical and translational science at Tufts University in Boston, joked after the speech of Chen. by all measures, Chinacare is a flying start.
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