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• spectrums_coherence@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No they don’t. They have state provided health care, supplemented with private options.

  But they are not universal in the sense that (1) not the entire population is covered (2) health care is not close to free for most people.

  There is literally a hit movie couple years ago about the difficulty to obtain affordable prescription drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Damn I had no idea. My in-laws were considering to move to China (they’re originally from HK) and I had assumed it’s because the healthcare/elderly care was better there than in Canada, but maybe not?

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    • spectrums_coherence@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I should specify I am referring to mainland China. Hong Kong has a different health care systems, and the health care is usually considered reasonably affordable for residents (could be because people in Hong Kong are more wealthy than most of mainland China)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Hong_Kong

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My understanding is they do not.

  Which is kind of the worst of both worlds.

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