The surgery preparations were finished quite quickly. Currently in the year 2011, China was one of the few countries in the world with enough government assistance to run a national medical insurance program for all its citizens. Although there were still many problems with the Chinese medical system, China was indeed seeing solid progress, development, and improvements. Nowadays, far fewer patients would refuse to pay their medical fees.
Back in earlier days, when village hospitals were still capable of performing caesarean sections and smaller city hospitals were still very good, many people who didn't have any money would directly leave their ill family member or child in the hospital and then leave! This was the slyness of ordinary citizens. This was a helpless type of slyness because they really didn't have any money.