Lessons from China's Changing Health System

Over the last 65 years, China has experimented boldly with its national health care system. In a New England Journal of Medicine “Perspective,” The Commonwealth Fund’s David Blumenthal, M.D., and William Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health review China’s varying approaches over the decades, from the early state-run system that relied on community health workers to today’s near-universal health coverage and burgeoning network of primary care clinics, and draw lessons for the U.S.