China .. health insurance includes serious diseases

China's cabinet said on Sunday that China will expand health insurance to cover all serious diseases each population of towns and villages by the end of the year.,

He said the State Council, in a statement posted on the government Web site, said that the insurance will cover 50 percent of the costs of treatment, in an attempt "to reduce the burden of medical expenses more effectively."

And provide the Government of President Xi Jinping access to health care affordability as a key to his administration, stressing the importance of meeting the needs of some 1.4 billion people.

China has spent since 2009 three trillion yuan ($ 480 billion) on health care reform, but the system still faces difficulty because of the scarcity of doctors and patients to infect medical personnel and poor distribution of medicines.

Economists believe that it is important for China to improve the quality of health care, if it wants to restructure its economy and boost domestic consumption.