Health policy
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Review
Pharmaceutical supply chain in China: current issues and implications for health system reform.
This article discusses the performance and distortions of pharmaceutical market in China and provides some reflections and policy implications for currently implemented reform. ⋯ We conclude that the root cause of the market and government failures is that higher-than-cost drugs preferred by all suppliers. New drug pricing mechanism is the key to the current pharmaceutical reform and should be implemented in coordination with other health system reforms.