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Beijing mandates nationwide long-term care insurance rollout

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Beijing is finally scaling its long-term care experiment into a full national program. On March 25, the General Offices of the Party Central Committee and the State Council issued joint guidelines for rolling out a national long-term care (LTC) insurance scheme .

The system – an expansion of the cu...