Ministry of Health Special Assessment of public hospital control costs

Business News (reporter Li Zijun) yesterday, Health Minister Chen Zhu said at the National Health Conference in 2011 that the focus of health reform this year will be "aimed at" medical costs, the Ministry of Health will be combined with health reform monitoring control of medical costs, while efforts to reduce personal health costs.　　Relevant experts pointed out that the proportion of expenditure to control health costs needs "administrative strength" and "market mechanism" both hands. "This year's medical expenses have indeed risen, the burden of our people's personal health care is still heavier, ' Twelve-Five ' period must be a priority to solve the problem of rising per capita health costs in China."　　"Chen Zhu, when talking about speeding up the reform of public hospitals, stressed that in the 2010, medical expenses did grow faster, and the burden of personal medical expenses in China is still heavier." The World Health Organization studies show that the proportion of individual expenditure in a country's total health costs is reduced to 15% to 20%, in order to basically solve the problem of "poverty by illness" and "return to poverty by illness".　　And China's current personal spending ratio of 38%, Chen said, "Twelve-Five" period will strive to reduce to about 30%. Chang-Tian Prospecting, which has long been engaged in biomedical and social relations research, thinks that reducing the cost of personal hygiene expenditure requires the simultaneous implementation of "administrative power" and "market mechanism". "Strengthening the executive power is to rationalize the pace of public hospital reform and gradually reduce or eliminate the addition of drugs, so that doctors can earn their income by using superb medical skills and not make money by selling drugs, which naturally decreases."　　Zhang Tian Prospecting said that the control of personal hygiene expenses at the same time, the need to use good market mechanisms to form a healthy drug supply and marketing model, the abolition of middlemen, so that cheap and effective good medicine to become the object of choice for the people. In addition, Zhu said, in order to strengthen the protection capacity, "Twelve-Five" period, China's new rural cooperative medical care for the level of per capita funding from the current 155 yuan to increase to more than 300 yuan.