The BBC reports today that China will soon unveil a plan to give fundamental health coverage to every one of its 1.35 billion citizens, nearly 1/4 of the world's population.
This is an extremely ambitious and surprising course for China to take. The country is known for its lax environmental laws and atrocious health system. The country has virtually no worker or environmental protection laws, and the ones that do exist are not enforced. Most of the rivers are too polluted to provide drinking water, and the acid rain caused by the nation's factories hurt crop yields for thousands of miles around.
If China has enough money and political will to give universal health care, surely they are intelligent enough to save huge sums of money and begin to regulate pollution.
It's not just their own country they are polluting. Smog from factories spreads to the Koreas, Japan, India, and the Southeast Asian nations.
The US might also take a leaf out of China's book…
This is an extremely ambitious and surprising course for China to take. The country is known for its lax environmental laws and atrocious health system. The country has virtually no worker or environmental protection laws, and the ones that do exist are not enforced. Most of the rivers are too polluted to provide drinking water, and the acid rain caused by the nation's factories hurt crop yields for thousands of miles around.
If China has enough money and political will to give universal health care, surely they are intelligent enough to save huge sums of money and begin to regulate pollution.
It's not just their own country they are polluting. Smog from factories spreads to the Koreas, Japan, India, and the Southeast Asian nations.
The US might also take a leaf out of China's book…
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