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| Subject: How Corruption Blights China’s Statist Healthcare System Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:44 pm | |
| The anxious Chinese woman wanted to ensure that her mother would receive the best care during her upcoming gall-bladder surgery. So the woman, surnamed Cheng, cornered the dean of surgery at a hospital in eastern China’s Anhui province and pressed an envelope in the doctor’s hands. Inside the hongbao — or “red packet,” as such cash bequests are known in China — was 1,000 yuan, or around $160. The doctor took the envelope without questions. “Everybody does this,” Cheng recalls. “If you don’t give a hongbao, you’ll stand out.”
http://world.time.com/2013/08/02/corruption-blights-chinas-healthcare-system/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true |
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