Private spending on total national health care cost that in europe and in japan, in socarea that it is fery, socialized. But a too big economies, they know, with a very, very low percentage of public spending on health care. It is the united states and china that that the health care system that re lie on private our pocket spending are more than government spending as a percentage of total national spending. So so in that regard, than na is as marketiseas in the us. It's very capitalistic. There's a lot of profit making going on among the hospitals and health care provider in china, as in the us, more than in the
Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism took off in England and then elsewhere but not in China; and then, how Maoist policy laid the groundwork for China’s ultimate capitalist takeoff and boom. Episode two will focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the deepening imbalances and heightened geopolitical conflict that resulted, and the current situation—including the impact of the crises surrounding Russia’s invasion.
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