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China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The MarketHealth Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market

China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market: Health Care Services, Markets, and the... Health Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market Zhizheng Du 1 Introduction Today, the disease structure has changed, the number of elderly people has increased, and high-tech medicine is now widely used. All of these factors have increased the costs of healthcare. Because the government cannot provide free healthcare for everyone, market mechanisms have to be introduced into the healthcare system. Governments, which originally provided free medical services, are now introduc- ing market mechanisms into the healthcare system. Healthcare is a basic right, and both the supply and demand sectors of the healthcare system have their own unique characteristics. Medical services should not be purchased through the market like other market commodities. China like many governments, which introduced market mechanisms into their healthcare systems, is facing a good deal of problems. One way to solve these problems is to establish a unique healthcare system according to market regulation rules in order to minimize negative effects; another way is to appeal to traditional Chinese moral principles to account for the flaws in market mechanisms. We can establish healthcare service markets, which conform to human nature. 2 The Four Stages of Chinese Healthcare Reform http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The MarketHealth Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 96)
Editors: Tao, Julia
Du, Zhizheng
China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market — Jan 1, 2008
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
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978-1-4020-6756-3
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137 –150
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10.1007/978-1-4020-6757-0_10
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Abstract

Health Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market Zhizheng Du 1 Introduction Today, the disease structure has changed, the number of elderly people has increased, and high-tech medicine is now widely used. All of these factors have increased the costs of healthcare. Because the government cannot provide free healthcare for everyone, market mechanisms have to be introduced into the healthcare system. Governments, which originally provided free medical services, are now introduc- ing market mechanisms into the healthcare system. Healthcare is a basic right, and both the supply and demand sectors of the healthcare system have their own unique characteristics. Medical services should not be purchased through the market like other market commodities. China like many governments, which introduced market mechanisms into their healthcare systems, is facing a good deal of problems. One way to solve these problems is to establish a unique healthcare system according to market regulation rules in order to minimize negative effects; another way is to appeal to traditional Chinese moral principles to account for the flaws in market mechanisms. We can establish healthcare service markets, which conform to human nature. 2 The Four Stages of Chinese Healthcare Reform

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Healthcare System; Healthcare Service; Market Mechanism; Chinese Communist Party; Patient Relationship

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