Privatising Health Care in China

Problems and Reforms

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4782695
AutoresWaikeung Tam (0000-0003-0641-3060, National University of Singapore, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas63-81
Data de publicação2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472330903270700
OpenAlexW2020233259
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas13

This article examines the privatisation of China's health care, highlighting the adverse consequences on the accessibility and quality of health services within the public hospital sector and considering the recent government's efforts to de-privatise the health sector. It argues that the dramatic cutbacks in public financing for the health sector and the failure of the state to establish effective and strong regulatory institutions are two major reasons for the adverse consequences, particularly the declining service quality. The lack of effective regulatory institutions is in turn caused by the following factors: revenue-generation imperative, bureaucratic politics, poorly financed and unqualified regulators. Finally, this article discusses the weaknesses of the recent de-privatisation policy, including implementation problems, the difficulty of the government to reassert its ownership rights over public hospitals, and inadequate regulatory reform

Bureaucracy · Business · China · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Health care · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public sector · Quality (philosophy · Regulatory reform · Revenue · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Finance · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Public Administration