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Healthcare in China
Healthcare in the People's Republic of China is primarily provided by state-owned hospitals, with medical insurance administered primarily by local governments. As of 2020, about 95% of the population has at least basic health insurance coverage. Medical insurances are subdivided into employee and resident insurance. The former covers the urban employed population, and the latter covers the urban non-employed population and the rural population. A total of 25% of the people covered by the basic medical insurance participated in the employee medical insurance, a total of 344 million people; 75% participated in the residents' medical insurance, a total of 1.017 billion people. Medical assistance has subsidized 78 million poor people to participate in basic medical insurance, and the coverage of poor people has stabilized at over 99.9%. Despite this, public health insurance generally only covers about half of medical costs, with the proportion lower for serious or chronic illnesses. Under...
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