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Is the Foreign Insurance Industry Cursed?

For older Chinese, buying health insurance is like cursing yourself. “If I take out insurance then something bad is going to happen to me,” is what they think, according to Alastair White, a Beijing-based partner of insurance brokerage house Aba... ...full story at Biz Cult

from Biz Cult on Tue, Jan 13 2009

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