The draft Social Security Law no longer stipulates the combined implementation of urban residents ' basic medical insurance

Xinhua Beijing, December 22 (reporter Zhao, zheng) The National People's Congress 22nd of the third trial of the Bill of Social insurance to delete the urban residents of basic medical insurance and new rural cooperative medical treatment of the principle of the implementation of the provisions.　　As originally stipulated in the draft, the people's Governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government can combine the basic medical insurance of urban residents with the new rural cooperative Medical Service according to the actual situation. Some members of the Standing Committee suggested that the new rural cooperative medical treatment standard is low, while the urban residents ' medical service demand and the cost are far higher than the rural residents.　　If the combination of the two, it may cause urban residents to encroach on the interests of rural residents, and the state advocated "urban feeding rural" approach is inconsistent.　　Gongcheng, a member of the NPC Standing Committee, proposed that the basic medical insurance of urban residents and new rural cooperative Medical Service are two different systems, the same standard needs a gradual process, the urgent task is to act as soon as the same agency. The National People's Congress Legal Committee and the State Council Legal Office, the Ministry of Health, Human resources and social security research, proposed to delete this clause, and increase the provisions: New rural cooperative medical treatment measures, by the State Council.