Reform of Medical and Health Care System

Guoqiang Tian and Xudong Chen ()
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Xudong Chen: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Chapter Chapter 28 in China’s Reform: History, Logic, and Future, 2022, pp 399-411 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Medical and health care services have dual attributes: they consist of medical services with the attributes of private goods (featuring no externalities and low infectivity and hence strong exclusiveness and competitiveness, so that the market should deliver them; examples include most medical services for cancers, heart diseases, and diabetes) as well as public health services with the attributes of public goods (featuring strong externalities, so that the government should deliver them). It is difficult to define the governance boundaries between government and the market and between government and society in medical and health care services. This makes reforming the medical and health care system difficult.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-5470-2_28

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