Is Chinese Hospital Reform Lagging because the Chinese don't know any better? – China News

www.asiahealthcareblog.com — A reader was prompted to ask whether "That the PRC’s citizens tolerate the rampant graft in the provision of prescription drugs is due to a lack of awareness of a better model of doing so?" The answer is, well, it's political, but not political in the American way.

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