Tag: medical insurance

Wuhan’s Elderly Expose Chinese Authorities’ Retaliation Against Health Reform Protests

Elderly protestors in Wuhan, China have been threatened and harassed by the police there since Feb. 8, when tens of thousands of Wuhan’s retirees started huge protests against health reforms that cut their medical benefits by 70 percent. Hao Jiayi, a Wuhan resident who participated in the protests, has been subject to police suppression and…


Chinese People Turn to Indian-Made Generic Drugs After Pfizer’s Paxlovid Excluded from China’s Health Insurance

News Analysis Chinese people are searching for Indian-made generic drugs after Paxlovid, Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral drug, was recently excluded from China’s national health insurance scheme. On Jan. 8, China’s National Health Insurance Administration (NHSA) failed to negotiate with Pfizer to include Paxlovid in the national health insurance scheme on the grounds that Pfizer’s quote was…


China Denies Claims of Insufficient Medical Insurance Funds Amid Mounting Public Concern

China’s healthcare authority issued a rare response amid mounting public concern that there was insufficient money in the nation’s healthcare fund because of repeated COVID-19 testing and increased hospitalizations due to the pandemic.. In a disclosure aimed at easing public concern, China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA), on July 23, said the national medical insurance…


China Spent More on Mass COVID-19 Testing Than on Its Military: Research

Recent research results from China’s financial securities firms show that the cost of the Chinese regime’s mass COVID-19 nucleic acid testing exceeded its military spending in 2021, and that it will drain China’s national medical insurance funds within three and a half years if citizens are tested every two days as required by the regime….