China’s new health plan drops target to lower out-of-pocket medical costs
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Beijing won't be moving mountains to cut households' medical bills. The newly published 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) for National Health has dropped a top-line quantitative target for reducing out-of-pocket spending as a share of total health costs.
Instead, the plan, published July 13, says household...