China Tells

China’s healthcare expenditure is quite low compared to most advanced economies in terms of expenditure per capita or the portion in GDP. On a per capita basis, China spends about $94 in health care, compared to $6719 in USA. In addition, about 4.6% of China’s GDP goes into Health care expenditure, compared to 15.3% in USA (by the way, I think US government is aware that 15% of GDP into healthcare is ridiculously high and they are trying to bring this number down). Among BRICs, only India spends less on healthcare than China. With the industrialization process in China going on, we are likely to see China’s healthcare expenditure to go up in the coming years.

中国的医疗保健开销在国际上处于很低的水平。中国平均每个人一年的医疗开销是94美元，而美国的开销是6719 美元。这和中国巨大的人口基数有关，也和中国低廉的公费医疗有关，同时和总额投入低也有关系。在金砖四国中，只有印度的医保开销低于中国。