Problems
Despite the huge achievements in China's health care system, Chinese people are still facing a dilemma that "medical treatment is both difficult and expensive". I think there are four problems in the healthcare system.
First of all,insufficient government investment.China, with 20% of the world's population, has a health expenditure that accounts for only 3% of world's total. The Chinese government contributed only 25.7% of the country's total in 2011. This is not only far below the average of 75% in developed countries, but also below the average of 55% of developing countries.
Second, uneven distribution of health care resource.70% of health care resources in China is in large cities, 80% of which are in big hospitals.
Third, low coverage of health insurance.There are still over 100 million people in China not covered by health or medical insurance of any kind. Even those with health insurance have heavy burdens.
Last, Public hospitals that regard economic interest as priority.71% of Chinese hospitals are publicly owned. Due to long time low government investment, the public hospitals are in blind pursuit of economic interests, causing phenomena like "over treatment" and "doctors make living on prescribing medicines".
Suggestions
A. Increasing government investment to cover all people
B. Establishing a national essential medicine system to reduce medicine prices
C. Promoting free medical treatments and advocating prevention first
D. To develop primary health service facilities
E. To reform public hospitals
Hu Weigang
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