Private health insurance stalls in China

DENVER: Chindex in 2006 launched a pilot insurance program, but at $5,000 per person per year, the annual premium remains too steep for most locals.

As a result, while almost half of China’s 24,700 hospitals are private most healthcare is still delivered by public institutions, with some 84 percent of in-patients using public facilities, according to a Deutsche Bank report in June.

“Investing in China’s health sector faces many challenges,” said Yanzhon Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations…

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