NEJM July 30, 2019
“In every country in the world, including the U.S. and China, some people are pretty unhappy with their health care system,” says Leemore Dafny, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Leader for NEJM Catalyst’s New Marketplace theme.
“But some of the reasons for that unhappiness are pretty fantastic,” she says. “People are living longer. They’re expecting better lives. More than half a billion people have climbed out of poverty in China alone over the last few decades, and healthy life expectancy in China surpassed that of the U.S. as of 2016.”
A Chinese baby can expect to live 68.7 years in good health, compared to 68.5 in the United States, according to the World Health Organization. Overall...
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