> And exactly the next day, the government announced a new policy that offers free treatment for all coronavirus-infected patients.
According to some Twitter videos I saw from Wuhan that is not actually the case, as in supposedly the local hospitals still ask people for money. There are also cases like this one [1] of people not being let in even though their relatives have paid some money.
This latter link might also be interesting for the HN crowd as the lady from the video can be heard shouting at a hospital security guard that het older mother wasn't able to pay the money through any phone apps (supposedly because of her age and her not knowing to use this modern stuff), which made me think again about how eliminating cash and person-to-person transactions is really detrimental for large swaths of the population (in this case older and sick people).
According to some Twitter videos I saw from Wuhan that is not actually the case, as in supposedly the local hospitals still ask people for money. There are also cases like this one [1] of people not being let in even though their relatives have paid some money.
This latter link might also be interesting for the HN crowd as the lady from the video can be heard shouting at a hospital security guard that het older mother wasn't able to pay the money through any phone apps (supposedly because of her age and her not knowing to use this modern stuff), which made me think again about how eliminating cash and person-to-person transactions is really detrimental for large swaths of the population (in this case older and sick people).
[1] https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1224959223915827200