论社会主义医疗市场

On Socialist Market of Medical Services

党的十四大提出要在我国建立充满生机活力的社会主义市场经济体制。怎样在十四大精神指导下,深化医疗改革,促进卫生事业的发展,这是当前我们卫生部门必须在理论与实践上要回答与解决的问题。

This article demonstraees that: (1) medical service market is anobjective reality, (2) regulation through the market plays a promi-nent role in expansion of recompenses, (3) the masses′growing de-mand for medical services necessitates the introduction of marketmechanism, and (4) competition mechanism efficiently improves thequality of service and optimize the utilization of resources. There-fore, it is concluded that the development of medical market is an in-exorable trend under the cond tions of market economy. For devel-oping the socialist market of medical services, the principal measuresinclude: to reform the hospital managerial system; increase efficien-cy through improved management and seek developmant through re-liance on scientific and technological advances; restructure the healthservice system so as to promote both cooperation and competition be-tween hospitals; remould the price system of medical services; andstrengthen overall regulation and control.