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OHE Consulting Report for PhRMA 5 January 2011 A2.1 Overview of the Chinese Health Care Delivery and Financing System Population, coverage, expenditure China has historically been considered a ‘developing country’ with limited resources for healthcare: China’s population in 2008 was 1.34bn, with 43% living in urban areas (an increase from 28% in 1990) Only 12% of the population are over 60 16% of the population are living in poverty (
OHE Consulting Report for PhRMA 5 January 2011 competitive pressure. Economic liberalisation also weakened the tax base and hence the ability of governments to directly subsidise hospital and other health care facilities. Such government support as did remain was directed at better off workers (on the demand side), i.e. those working for the government or the more secure SOEs, and (on the supply side) at urban hospitals. There was further geographical inequity as the poorer provinces lagged behind in income growth and interregional transfers via the central government lagged behind the growth of the economy Hospitals/health facilities were given “financial autonomy” which meant they supplied “basic services at a loss (these were price controlled) and made profits on drugs and “high tech” care through a policy of charging for these non-‐basic services. Barefoot doctors who used to provide first-level [primary] care to the agricultural commune and workplace clinics, set up private village clinics as there was no longer communal funding to support them. Even utilisation of more basic health care services started to fall as health centres began charging even for public health services such as EPI and TB (outside of DOTS). Thus economic liberalisation reduced people’s access to healthcare (measured in terms of utilisation rates) and increased the risk of them incurring large out-‐of-‐pocket expenditures when they did obtain access. Analysis seems to suggest that the main problems that emerged were: high out-‐of-‐pocket payments; high costs of health care, with inefficiencies due to long hospital stays, overuse of drugs, and overuse of interventions such as caesarean sections and MRIs scans, as providers sought to compensate for reductions in government and insurance scheme payments (and artificially low prices for those services that were paid for) by charging for additional services. Consequences of the erosion of coverage and of public funding were that: Whilst China’s economic growth was high, its mortality rates were not failing in a way that reflected this. China now has heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and hypertension as a result of increased intake of fat, sugar, and calories, more smoking, accompanied by less exercise. health expenditures have placed a growing burden on poorer families, with evidence from 2003 indicating that out of pocket spending on health pushed an additional 19% of families below the $1.08 poverty line, with 76% and 79% respectively of the lowest income urban and rural populations being without any insurance cover, resulting in them spending 10% and 21% of their income respectively on medical expenditures (China MOH, 2003) public health in terms of primary care prevention, for which China had a high reputation, began to be neglected in the 1980s and 90s, and public health surveillance declined likewise, hence HIV/AIDS, SARS and Avian Flu were not dealt with well and China has struggled to tackle TB and viral hepatitis. 85
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