China's Health Care Reform: Bull Run for Medtech Starts in the Year of the Ox
While all of the attention is focused on US health care reform and how it may hurt medical technology, China is undertaking massive reform of its own, which looks to be a boon, first for equipment and diagnostics, then for devices.
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