Officials say health reform meets five challenges Xiaonian says market role is forgotten

Chinese Medical Insurance Research Association president says China health reform faces five challenges Chinese New Society Shanghai June 20 (reporter Li Jiajia) China Medical Insurance Research Association president, Wang, Vice minister of China's Ministry of Labor and Social Security, said here 20th that China's new round of health reform will face severe challenges in five areas, including: the development of supporting documents,　　Complete the task indicators, handling capacity building, mechanism building and supporting linkage. In the fifth session of the China Health Industry Summit Forum held today by Ceibs, Wang said, "The task of China's medical insurance is very difficult, if summed up as a mobile phone number is ' 1239581196 '." Wang the new round of health care reform is called "low standard, broad coverage, basic, multi-level, sustainable". The so-called "1239581196", in fact, "one" means a goal, so that everyone can enjoy basic medical insurance; "Two" refers to two key points, expand coverage and improve the level of protection, so that "difficult to see a doctor, the cost of medical care" has been significantly slowed down, the burden of public health is significantly reduced; "39　　This year, China's urban health insurance coverage of 390 million, "Five" is this year, the new urban residents of the 63 urban insurance coverage rate reached 50%; "Eight" is the first pilot of 317 cities, the insured rate reached 80%. The first of the two "one" is the package to solve the legacy of history, "to solve the problem of the participation of employees, this is an old problem"; the second "one" is the September 1 of this year to the university students to be included in the urban residents insurance. "Nine" means that by 2011 China's entire urban residents insured population reached more than 90%.　　The last "six" is to the urban workers health insurance, urban residents of the maximum payment limit to increase the annual average wage and residents disposable income of about six times times. Xiaonian, a prominent economist at the same time, is based on the economic value of health reform, saying that "the role of the market is diluted and even forgotten, which is a major flaw in the new health reform package". Xiaonian that the medical and health industry should be opened up to reduce barriers to entry and to promote the free flow of resources, especially to promote the inflow of private capital, increase supply and improve the level of competition. Promote the reform of existing public hospitals through market competition. Increase supply to reduce the price of products and services, to solve the common people "difficult to see a doctor expensive" problem.