About 98 percent of villagers first come to me when they get sick. They only go to a county hospital when I can't cure their illness.

When we first got there, we were the only hospital in a six-county area. They just came walking in.

I proposed to the premier that China should speed up the promotion of a new rural cooperative medical system to let more farmers enjoy the benefits.

The average income in my village is only 500 yuan (about 63 U.S. dollars) a year, most of which is spent on daily life and children's education. When villagers get seriously ill, they have no money to go to a hospital.

It used to be a county hospital, but it's no county hospital anymore.

Broward County is the first county of substantial size to do so. The 10 largest counties generate 80 percent of the work.