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Why isn't medicine free on China like how it is free in the DPRK and Cuba? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 months ago

It was privatised back in the 80s.

By 2000s they reformed and created government owned health insurance. Nowadays healthcare is cheap but not free but they have come a long way. Even in 2000, China was considered poor. They were paying in Yuan for drugs and medical equipment imported from overseas. Now the country can afford it. 20 years ago it was a very different story.