辩证地看“看病贵”

Regulation of Health Service Expenditure

分析了看病贵的主客观原因,提出了抑制医药费用过快增长的决策:对医药费用实行“总量控制、结构调整”;政府增加对卫生事业的投入;推行区域卫生规划,有效合理地利用医疗资源;推行社区卫生服务;加强对药品的管理。

How to regulate, control, and use health service expenditure is discussed from aspects: improve regional health sprvice planning from the perspective of holistic benefits of prevention, screening, referral, treatment, and rehabilitation services as a package; strengthen cooperation and partnership between health service providers, consumers, and insurance agencies in obtaining maximum benefits of health services and resources; continually develop and evaluate new drugs, techniques, procedures and improve usage on a selective basis according to patient condition; hospitals should be compensated proportionately to the skills, techniques, time, and the complexity of services rendered, in order to maintain and develop services appropriately; eack of health professionals should be more than a clinician, a teacher, or a researcher in that they should become actively involved in professional, scientific and managerial activities and organizations concerned with comprehensive, cost - effective, and efficient hospital services.