In health care China's government should allow more private hospitals that can charge market rates.
Now private hospitals account for 20% of beds in Singapore and 30% in Bangkok.
Doctors in public hospitals are salaried whilst those in private hospitals are paid on a fee-for-service basis.
"We have received a number of allegations made in confidence about private hospitals and medical insurance, " he said.
Such is the rush that the federal government has recently permitted private hospitals and labs to pitch in.
Mr Hutton defended the government's use of private hospitals to cut NHS waiting lists despite the relatively high cost.
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Distributed through the country's normal outlets--public and private hospitals and pharmacies--the drug could be obtained by many more people.
This would help make records portable, says Shivinder Singh, the managing director of Fortis Healthcare, a chain of private hospitals.
Under a U.S. license, GE is supplying medical equipments to private hospitals via a local distributor in Yangon, the largest city.
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Dr Shetty's family-owned hospital group reports a 7.7% profit after taxes, compared with an average of 6.9% in American private hospitals.
In-patient care is provided in public and private hospitals (not-for-profit and for-profit).
However, consultants were allowed to take on private work - a move that led to the growth in private care in private hospitals.
In November, about 20, 000 doctors in government and private hospitals in Bihar went on strike in protest at the killing of a local surgeon.
Mr Paterson is accused of performing "cleavage-sparing" mastectomies at Solihull Hospital and two private hospitals owned by Spire Healthcare in Solihull and Little Aston, Staffordshire.
He described the coalition as having the energy and commitment to make sure that patients are offered a greater choice between NHS and private hospitals.
Mr Mohi told the police he received several phone calls in which people threatened to kill him if he continued the raids on private hospitals.
Boards, directors and senior managers at private hospitals who allow abuse to take place will face tougher sanctions - including possibly criminal prosecutions, he said.
Big businesses (such as banks or private hospitals) are suffering, too.
In China, basic things such as uncontaminated baby formula, clean air, top-quality schools and private hospitals are luxuries, out of reach of many members of the middle class.
Although there has been talk of using private hospitals to deal with bed shortages in the National Health Service, the government seems unwilling to pay for this help.
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And they are worried that staff in the new private hospitals or schools will be employed on worse conditions than when they worked for the NHS or local government.
On December 2nd, the government announced the creation of a new National Care Standards Commission whose job will include inspecting and enforcing minimum requirements in private hospitals and clinics.
Several private hospitals that I visited in India last month make a fraction of the profits that American hospitals do but still reported treating up to 10% of their patients for free.
The case has prompted criticism from experts, campaigners and families who argue private hospitals such as Winterbourne View are the wrong place to look after people with learning disabilities who display challenging behaviour.
But the means of ensuring that they are met will be thrown open: private hospitals will treat patients who have been waiting too long for treatment, and tutors will give remedial classes to failing schoolchildren.
But it is unarguable that Britain maintains fewer hospital beds per person than continental Europe or the United States (where, it is true, surpluses in private hospitals contribute to the high cost of health care).
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