Officials say Hong Kong’s new government health insurance scheme on the right track, but observers unsure

Nearly 90 per cent of policies bought under Hong Kong’s first government-backed health insurance scheme involved more affordable care options, officials have said, suggesting some early adopters might have switched services from the overburdened public health care system and gone private.New findings on the first year of implementation of the Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme, which was launched in April last year, also showed that more than half of the scheme participants were aged 40 or…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3102762/officials-say-hong-kongs-new-government-health