China News Service, March 25 (Xinhua) According to the website of the National Medical Insurance Administration, some people say that the number of urban and rural residents participating in medical insurance in my country has continued to decline in recent years. Others claim that there is a “wave of withdrawals” of medical insurance in rural areas in some areas. The National Medical Insurance Administration said this statement was inaccurate. The coverage of my country's basic medical insurance has stabilized at more than 95%, and the quality of insurance continues to improve.
From a macro perspective, the number of residents insured by medical insurance remains stable. Relevant data have fluctuated slightly in recent years, mainly due to two reasons. The first is insured data management. Starting in 2022, the medical insurance department took the launch of the national unified medical insurance information platform as an opportunity to clean up a total of 56 million residents' inter-provincial and intra-provincial duplicate insurance data for two consecutive years. This is the main reason for fluctuations in resident medical insurance participation data. The second is to optimize the insurance participation structure. Due to new employment factors such as the employment of college students after graduation, some people who originally participated in resident medical insurance have switched to employee medical insurance. From 2020 to 2023, 5 to 8 million insured persons will switch from participating in resident medical insurance to employee medical insurance every year, resulting in The number of residents covered by medical insurance and the number of employees covered by medical insurance have waxed and waned.
From a micro perspective, the National Medical Insurance Administration recently sent personnel to conduct on-site surveys on insurance participation in 8 villages in 8 provinces including Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, and Gansu, which have relatively weak work foundations. The survey shows that among these eight villages, the number of people participating in resident medical insurance in 5 villages will increase in 2023 compared with 2022, the number of insured people in 3 villages will decrease slightly, and the overall number of insured people in 8 villages will increase by 151 people compared with 2022. Taking a village in Macheng City, Hubei Province, where "many people have withdrawn from insurance" was reported online as an example, field research found that 97.4% of the residents in the village were covered by medical insurance in 2023, and 30 people were actually insured, and those who were not insured due to special reasons Just an example. Many villagers said that fortunately, having medical insurance has effectively solved their worries about medical treatment.
However, we must also note that with the continued development of my country's population aging and low birthrate, especially with the decline of my country's total population, the number of residents insured by medical insurance may also decrease steadily or slightly in the future, and even the total number of insured persons may also decrease. May be reduced.