Highlights:

China's health care blueprint

Basic health-care system:

public hygiene service

medical care service

health care insurance

and medicine supply

Public hygiene service system:

basic disease prevention

health education

mother and infant health care

mental health

first aid services

Medical care service system:

public hospitals be dominant providers of the services

more room for grassroots-level hospitals and clinics

Medical insurance system:

diversified services to cover unemployed

more medical subsidies

Medicine supply system:

stricter control of drug distribution and use

more supervision of prices

(Xinhua News Agency, CCTV April 7, 2009)