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Healthcare

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Wish we weren’t here

Mexicans bear the brunt of swine flu response
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

As far as Mao was concerned, enemies of the state could come in all shapes and sizes. Take the Kill a Sparrow campaign – the best known of a series of measures designed to counter the Four Pests in the late 1950s – in which citizens banged ...

Yin, yang and Porsches

Chinese medicine booms
Apr 30, 2009 (WiC 13)

Times are good,” says Huang Xin. Evidently they are. Huang, a Chinese medicine doctor, says he is looking to purchase his third Porsche in less than a year. He told China Daily: “People saved hard before the downturn, and they now have less ...

How China proposes to fix its healthcare system
Apr 17, 2009 (WiC 11)

Samuel Goldwyn, the Hollywood film producer, thought a hospital "no place to be sick.” Many Chinese patients have formed similar opinions. But their phobia is less a fear of scalpels and needles and more an anxiety at the rising cost of ...

An unhealthy system

Why China needs a massive reform of its healthcare system
Feb 6, 2009 (WiC 1)

Healthcare is a thorny political issue in most countries and it is no different in China. It is also a policy area in which Mao’s legacy was a positive one. Forty years ago, more than a million “barefoot doctors” (farmers, factory workers ...

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