This thesis is a study of health policy, as well as a study on social inequality. It studies who gets what in China s market transition, and how the state policy legitimised and institutionalised certain social inequalities. The thesis findings parallel what the literature suggests for other transitional societies. Analysis of the new health care policy clearly shows the discontinuity in the state s commitment to equity, which is a common phenomenon in transitional Asia as well as in Eastern Europe. Through analyzing a specific state redistributive policy and its implementation in one Chinese...