healthcare system on a drip
以药养医 yǐ yào yǎng yī

Hospitals and doctors rely on drug sale commission profits as their main source of funding because government expenditure and treatment fees are so low. Since drug markups are capped at 15 percent, hospitals prefer to purchase expensive drugs from pharmaceutical companies. Legions of underpaid doctors also prefer to prescribe expensive medicenes, exacerbating this rent seeking behaviour. Patients are hurt in the hip-pocket and health insurance funds are drained link
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