Lessons from the East: China's Rapidly Evolving Health Care System

Lessons from the East: China's Rapidly Evolving Health Care System In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party established a state-run health care system that relied on community health workers to provide free primary care in villages across China. The system brought enormous public health gains to the nation’s 1.3 billion residents. The Commonwealth Fund’s David Blumenthal and coauthor William Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health identify important insights from China’s radical health system experimentation. The Commonwealth Fund