China News Service, Beijing, March 6 (Lu Mengmeng) "Relevant data show that in 2022, the national residents' medical insurance participation data has declined. After research, I believe that one of the main reasons is that some residents voluntarily withdraw from the residents' medical insurance. This not only harms the legitimate rights and interests of urban and rural residents, but also challenges the fairness of the medical security system." During the two sessions, Long Guoying, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Peasants and Workers' Party, and president of Jiangxi Economic and Management Cadre College, said .
This year’s government work report proposed that the per capita financial subsidy standard for resident medical insurance will be increased by 30 yuan.
It will promote the coordinated development and governance of medical insurance, medical care and medicine.
Promote provincial-level coordination of basic medical insurance, improve the national centralized drug procurement system, strengthen normalized supervision of the use of medical insurance funds, and implement and improve settlement for medical treatment in other places.
The picture shows Long Guoying, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Peasants and Workers' Party, and president of Jiangxi Economic and Management Cadre College.
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"During the research process, we found that the co-ordination of medical insurance for urban and rural residents in China is still based on municipal levels, which to a certain extent has weakened the ability of medical insurance to resist risks." Long Guoying said that for this reason, she proposed to improve the medical insurance for urban and rural residents. Suggestions on overall planning and strengthening the ability to resist disease risks.
"This can better balance the differences in medical insurance benefits between regions and groups, and improve the fairness and sustainability of the medical insurance system. On the basis of provincial coordination, we can gradually move towards national coordination."
Long Guoying expressed the hope that relevant departments will innovate the residents' medical insurance payment mechanism to effectively reduce the burden on residents.
At the same time, we will improve the reimbursement ratio of residents’ medical insurance and reduce personal out-of-pocket expenses.
"It is necessary to optimize the price of medical services, reduce the burden on patients, improve the transparency of medical service prices, severely crack down on and standardize arbitrary medical charges and over-treatment, and ensure the rationality of medical expenses. By optimizing price strategies, we can effectively increase the medical insurance reimbursement of urban and rural residents. proportion, and strictly control the residents’ out-of-pocket payment ratio at around 30% to protect the legitimate rights and interests of residents,” she said.
At the same time, Long Guoying also suggested strengthening the supervision and management of medical insurance funds, severely cracking down on violations, preventing the abuse and waste of medical insurance funds, establishing a medical insurance data sharing and exchange mechanism, realizing the exchange and sharing of medical insurance information, and coordinating the use of basic public health service fees. Protect the health of the entire population and improve the efficiency of the use of medical insurance funds.
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