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China healthcare costs forcing patients into crippling debt
By Adam Jourdan and Ben Hirschler SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – As China's medical bills rise steeply, outpacing government insurance provision, patients and their families are increasingly turning to loans to pay for healthcare, adding to the country's growing burden of consumer debt. While public health insurance reaches nearly all of China's 1.4 billion people, its coverage…