Guest Post-script: Chinese Medicine

At work this morning, I tried to schedule a meeting with one of my coworkers. She said she had to run to the hospital in the early afternoon. She then elaborated that she and her husband showed up at the hospital at 4 am this morning (this from a girl who rarely gets in to the office before 9:30), waited around for 4 hours with hundreds of other fairly desperate people, and eventually were given the chance to come back at 12:30 this afternoon to meet with the herbalist about some medicine for her father.

A few companies are considering providing insurance that provides access to those lovely VIP wards to their local Chinese workers (everything is available at the right price!). This coverage is quite a bit more expensive than standard medical plans, and some may think it elitist. From my perspective, it's the least that should be provided.