In the first part of the picture,a man walking out of a hospital is asking a middle-aged man walking in:"What's wrong?" He answers:"A headache." In the second part,an elderly lady asks the middle-aged man the same question:"What's wrong?" He replies "Headache",holding a medical bill in hand,which says:"A common cold; cost: 888 RMB." This picture apparently intends to draw its readers' attention to the exorbitant prices for seeing a doctor in today's China. It also implies that many Chinese people could not afford to get sick.
AS far as I can see,medical care reforms should be launched to solve this problem. On the other hand,doctors' salaries should not be linked to the medicines they prescribe and medical checkups they perform. Instead,their income should be based on the performance of their work. On the other hand,the government healthcare system should cover more categories of medicines for common and chronic disease,thus reducing the expenditure of the patient.
In short,to make visiting a doctor more affordable,the government should reform doctors' income structure and extend its healthcare coverage.
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