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#10 | Wuhan Protests, the Chinese Healthcare System, and the “Hong Kong 47”

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Chinese Health Care System

Chinese health care system is a bankrupt, it's collapsing. As you don't have children, you need more subsidies from the government. But the subsidies are going to be cut as they can't fund these things. How does the Chinese healthcare system work? Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Basically for overwhelming majority of Chinese population of 1.4 roughly billion, there is something called the basic healthcare insurance. That coverage actually is pretty wide, it's covered over 90%. Some province are very good. In the coastal area, in the big city, directly under central government administration, like Beijing, like Shanghai. Oh, the health care insurance is pretty adequate.

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