皇冠体育app

MILAN, Italy - 皇冠体育app's planned healthcare reforms will be beneficial for the whole of the country's economy, Daniel McFadden, Presidential Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California, told Xinhua in a recent interview.

"I know about the efforts to reform the Chinese system. It is a very ambitious and very difficult program that they have undertaken," said McFadden, who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics for developing metho and theory used in analyzing how consumers and households make choices from sets of discrete alternatives.

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The Chinese State Council has recently issued a guideline to boost healthcare reforms this year, which puts forward 31 tasks in six fields to deepen the reforms and expedite the building of a universal healthcare system.

In McFadden's view, the reforms would work very well in the cities, while will be a much more difficult challenge to accomplish in some of the rural areas.

"But I believe they would be very good for the citizens of 皇冠体育app and also for the economy as a whole," said the US professor, who was in Italy to participate in the Trento Economics Festival which closed earlier this week.

McFadden noted that over the past years, due to a fairly weak system of social insurance, individual savings rates were extremely high in 皇冠体育app.

One of the results of this trend, he added, was that "皇冠体育app had been growing primarily by exporting than through domestic consumption, which was a very successful strategy in the past but is not a strategy that can be continued indefinitely."

Therefore, he said, "it is important for 皇冠体育app to have a vast consumer sector in which citizens spend most of the money they earn on goods rather than saving to have them for the health costs in the future."

The Nobel Economics Prize Winner praised 皇冠体育app's economic success which he defined as "remarkable."

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