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> So healthcare in China is two-tier? Excellent care for those with money or connections, and bad care for everyone else? > As someone living in a country with
by romanovcode 8y ago
> So healthcare in China is two-tier? Excellent care for those with money or connections, and bad care for everyone else?
> As someone living in a country with working universal healthcare
I don't know where you are living, but for example the praised German universal healthcare works exactly the same way - two-tier. Of course it's not bad on universal, but if you have money to go private the difference is obviously there.
- geomark 8y agoIsn't it the same everywhere in the world? My first hand experiences are the US and Thailand and I have also researched quite a bit the medical tourism industry. Although there are some differences, it seems universally the case that most locals have access to public healthcare which is generally bad while those with money (wealthy locals and foreign medical tourists) have access to excellent doctors and facilities. I know there are people positive on nationalized healthcare in some countries. But then I read about how wait times for medical procedures have reached record highs at hospitals in the UK and that there is now wait-time insurance offered in Canada to pay for trip and treatment in cases where you will be dead before your appointment date arrives. I don't know that it has ever been different. Or that it ever will be.
- walshemj 8y agoMinor medical procedures I think you will find - serious cases get fast tracked.