{"id":38524,"date":"2009-11-09T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"9be54a66-7f36-49ac-bc27-686565ca91af"},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:15:43","slug":"china-seeks-its-own-health-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38524","title":{"rendered":"China Seeks Its Own Health Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese are also trying to change their health care system, but as the United States tries to extend insurance to all, &#8220;China is simply\u00a0attempting to provide a modicum of coverage for its people,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091109\/wl_nm\/us_china_health\" >Reuters<\/a> reports. The Chinese are also trying to stop the hospital system&#8217;s &#8220;reliance on peddling drugs to earn revenue. \u2026 One illness can ruin a Chinese family, driving everyone \u2014 from well-paid white collar employees at foreign firms to migrant construction workers and hard-scrabble farmers \u2014 to save around 40 percent of household income for a rainy day.&#8221; Chinese economists argue that lowering costs could allow the Chinese to spend more of their disposable income and ease\u00a0tensions with Washington over\u00a0the trade deficit\u00a0(Hornby, 11\/8).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/wdVaHrkqTok\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese are also trying to change their health care system, but as the United States tries to extend insurance to all, &#8220;China is simply\u00a0attempting to provide a modicum of coverage for its people,&#8221; Reuters reports. The Chinese are also trying to stop the hospital system&#8217;s &#8220;reliance on peddling drugs to earn revenue. \u2026 One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}