Health Affairs, 27, no. 4 (2008): 977 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.977 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Rating Health IT Progress   Consumers And Health IT   Dutch Health System   HIV/AIDS In India, China

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Paying For Care

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Paying For Care

On the threshold of health reforms, China and India face different problems. China needs to fix a system that was allowed to break down; India must improve a system that never worked very well at all. Both, however, have decided that part of the solution is to spend a great deal more on health. Beyond that, they still face a number of difficult questions: What health services to buy, and for whom? How to divide resources and responsibilities among different levels of government? What’s the best way to lower individuals’ out-of-pocket spending, which equals a staggering 80 percent of total . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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