elderly welfare system

基本解释

Until an extensive welfare system is put in place, Chinese children will be mainly responsible for looking after elderly parents.
在福利系统落实到位之前，还是需要中国年轻人必须负责照顾自己的父母。
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Improving the social welfare system with focus on supporting the elderly, disabled, children, and needy, and strengthening the building of welfare facilities.
——健全以扶老、助残、爱幼、济困为重点的社会福利制度，加强福利设施建设。
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Greater support should be given to developing child welfare agencies and the system of social services for the elderly.
要加大对社会养老服务体系和儿童福利机构建设的支持力度。

And he was an early critic of the Clintons' abortive 1993 effort to reform health care, arguing that with five out of six Americans covered by health insurance, and with free or subsidised care provided for the poor and elderly, the true crisis was not in the health system but the welfare system.
ECONOMIST: The incomparable Daniel Patrick