Privatization and its discontents--the evolving Chinese health care system.

By D. Blumenthal, W. Hsiao. New England Journal of Medicine, 2005

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Extending health insurance to the rural population: an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme. (2007, background): “Since the economic reforms of the early 1980s, financing and regulatory arrangements have created perverse provider incentives, and resulted in problems of inefficiency, low quality, and unnecessary care (World Bank 2004; Blumenthal and Hsiao 2005).”
The China Health and Nutrition Survey, 1989–2011 (2014, background): “Further dynamics include population aging (14), continued changes in highly decentralized family planning policies (15), and health and health care (16).”
Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2012, background): “The cost burdens of privatization related to an increase in disparities in healthcare coverage and infant mortality between urban and rural areas [79].”