title: Toward a Confucian family-oriented health care system for the future of China.
abstract: Recently implemented Chinese health insurance schemes have failed to achieve a Chinese health care system that is family-oriented, family-based, family-friendly, or even financially sustainable. With this diagnosis in hand, the authors argue that a financially and morally sustainable Chinese health care system should have as its core family health savings accounts supplemented by appropriate health insurance plans. This essay's arguments are set in the context of Confucian moral commitments that still shape the background culture of contemporary China.
authors: Department of Medical Ethics, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China. cyongfu@sdu.edu.cn
authors: Yongfu
authors: Y
authors: Cao
authors: Xiaoyang
authors: X
authors: Chen
authors: Ruiping
authors: R
authors: Fan
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D032903:Confucianism; D005190:Family; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020402:Medical Savings Accounts / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009014:Morals; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population