Public fury as China mental hospitals recruit people to impersonate patients in insurance scam

A number of psychiatric hospitals in central China have been exposed over a scam in which they lure healthy people to become patients in a bid to defraud the public medical insurance scheme. According to an undercover report by the Beijing News, most of the patients in such privately run psychiatric institutions in Xiangyang, Hubei province, do not show any abnormal behaviour and receive little treatment. The healthy individuals told the newspaper that they stayed there because of a “free...


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