ABSTRACT
234The foregoing analysis examined the conventional medical care system first built as an integral part of CPE, and, tried to account for its transformation through several subsequent phases into a new system supported by two main pillars such as public hospitals and public insurances from 1979 to the present. It appears that China’s health care reform represents a social engineering endeavor with considerable breadth, complexity and challenges, and it remains a gradual and on-going process. Sovereign planners have been trying to bridge the gaps between policy and performance, while adhering to the commitment of affordable care for all people in China. It is germane here to continue to monitor the overall policy trend and make a preliminary assessment of the outcome of re-engineering endeavors on the basis of available data and information in subsequent three sections.
