New healthcare plan covers 8 million Chinese

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Eight Million more Chinese living in the urban areas will be getting health cover from 2011, as part of the Chinese government’s new health care planannounced by the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Wednesday.

The expansion will increase the number of Chinese urban dwellers covered by the government aided basic health insurance programme to 440 million. Along with the rural population covered by a separate rural health insurance scheme, this ensures 90 percent of the Chinese population is covered by a health insurance, close to the Chinese government’s target to reach universal health insurance coverage.

The expansion of health insurance coverage is part of a bigger health care improvement scheme of the government that includes government plans to build several hospitals, improve the standard of existing health centres, subsidize frequently used medicines, increase support to the citizens suffering from severe diseases and increase the capping in rural insurance. Ref and Read more: http://www.methodsofhealing.com/health-cover-for-8-million-chinese-people/

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