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China’s State Council passed a long awaited medical reform plan which promised to spend 850 billion yuan (US$123 billion) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country’s 1.3 billion population.
The plan was studied and passed at Wednesday’s meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. The government has been deliberating medical reform since 2006.
According to reform plans, authorities would take measures within three years to provide basic medical security to all Chinese in urban and rural areas, improve the quality of medical services, and make medical services more accessible and affordable for ordinary people.
The meeting decided to take the following five measures by 2011:
According to preliminary estimates, government at all levels would invest US$123 billion by 2011 in order to carry out the five measures which are aimed at providing universal basic medical service to all Chinese citizens, and to pave the road for further medical reforms.
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