China's Healthcare Crisis: 3/4 of population has no health insurance/too expensive to see doctor

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Under these circumstances, 87% of the peasants rely on their own for medical care. To them, it seems pointless to pay for insurance when they live in a tight financial situation. Some peasants said helplessly, "When the ambulance rings, a pig is lost, a year's work is gone if you are hospitalized once, and one illness wipes out decades of hard work."
Moreover, since the 1990s, the CCP has implemented a healthcare reform in which all public hospitals are required to be self-sufficient financially. A "pay-as-you-go" healthcare system was then put in place. It has led to the cruel fact that hospitals won't treat a patient if he or she doesn't pay a deposit first. Patients are driven out of hospitals because running out of money becomes a common occurrence.
Let's look at the following three real-life cases.

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