As China Gets Fatter, World Bank Calls for Health Care Reform - China Real Time Report - WSJ

As China Gets Fatter, World Bank Calls for Health Care Reform - China Real Time Report - WSJ Yesterday, the World Bank announced plans to produce a major study in partnership with the Chinese government looking at health sector reform. The study aims to help China provide low-cost quality care to its 1.2 billion people, especially its aging population and rising middle class, and produce a set of recommendations that could someday serve as a model for other developing countries. “Many of the challenges facing China today are similar to those faced by high-income countries for decades,” said Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president. “China has an opportunity to leapfrog decades of bad practice by developing new models of health care delivery and implementing them at scale.”http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/07/09/as-china-gets-fatter-world-bank-calls-for-health-care-reform/?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ee9ae4db3b-Sinocism07_09_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-ee9ae4db3b-29615013&mc_cid=ee9ae4db3b&mc_eid=5935182a65