The Welfare System and the NHS

The Welfare System and the NHS

We talked about the NHS - the advantages and the drawbacks of the system. How does this compare with the health system in your country?


The Welfare system isn't only about the NHS, it's about providing for those people who are in need because of unemployment, sickness, homelessness and so on. How does this system work in your country? What are the similarities and differences?

In China, Health System is developing rapidly.  Although it is not better than British, it has made great achievements and provided benefits to many Chinese people. If citizens have a job in a company, the company would ask them to buy medical insurance. The medicine fees will be discounted by the insurance about 20%off. However, Chinese health system also has some drawbacks, Chinese patients do not need to pay consultation fees to doctors so that many doctors prefer to ask patients to pay more fees of the medicine and miscellaneous income,so they may add some inessential prescription to people. Therefore, Chinese people might pay more money if they go to hospital.

There are five main parts of Welfare System in China, including the system of medical insurance, the old-age insurance system, unemployment insurance benefits, compulsory education, special policies for certain people.

old-age insurance system: elder people could get pension when they retired. If an old-age man did not have a job before or dose not have any children, they also could get financial aid from the government.

unemployment insurance :this system will alleviate the economic distress brought about by unemployment and to facilitate employment.


 compulsory education: The vast majority of children don not need to pay any tuition fees in the duration of the 9 years' compulsory education. They just only pay the fees of books.