China News Service, Beijing, March 25 (Xinhua) The official account of the social platform of China's National Medical Insurance Administration released on the 25th that the person in charge of the relevant department of the National Medical Insurance Administration responded to reporters' questions on the situation of residents' medical insurance participation. Regarding statements such as "the number of urban and rural residents participating in medical insurance has continued to decline in recent years" and "a wave of medical insurance withdrawals has occurred in some rural areas", the person in charge pointed out that this statement is inaccurate. The coverage of China's basic medical insurance has stabilized at more than 95%, and the quality of insurance continues to improve.
The person in charge said that from a macro perspective, the number of residents participating in 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.
Another reason is the optimization of insurance participation structure. The person in charge said that due to new employment factors such as graduate employment of college students, some people who originally participated in resident medical insurance have switched to employee medical insurance. From 2020 to 2023, 5 million to 8 million insured people will switch from participating in resident medical insurance every year. In order to participate in employee medical insurance, the number of residents covered by medical insurance and the number of employees covered by medical insurance have increased and decreased.
The person in charge said that from a micro perspective, the National Medical Insurance Administration recently sent special personnel to carry out on-site surveys on insurance participation in eight villages in Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces with 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.
The person in charge also pointed out that with the continued development of China's aging population and low birthrate, especially as China's total population declines, the number of residents insured by medical insurance may also decrease steadily or slightly in the future, or even the total number of insured persons It may also be reduced. (over)