The situation in the medical care sector is more varied. Some of the East Asian countries have introduced comprehensive and innovative health insurance reforms, with varying degrees of public sector participation, that have attempted to nationalize the financing of medical care.
In others, medical insurance coverage is limited primarily to those in the formal sector, with others in the population obtaining medical care directly from government hospitals and health centers or from private sector practitioners. In education sector, the government’s involvement has focused on the primary and secondary sectors; its provision of tertiary education has typically been quite limited.