Balanced Development of China’s Urban and Rural Health Care Insurance
In recent years, China’s health care insurance system develops by leaps, and plays an inestimable role in the safeguard of both urban and rural people’s health. Besides, the basic health care insurance of urban residents and the decentralized management and scattered resources of the “new rural cooperative medical care system” make a big influence on the sustainable development of the health care insurance system. Thus, it can be said that the balanced development of China’s urban and rural health care insurance is the trend of times and is imperative as well.
After years of exploration, health care insurance in China gets the conditions in the system, management and work to implement the balanced development plan. Also, a set of relatively perfect and efficient health care insurance service and management systems have been established. In the past few years, the practices and explorations of the balanced development plan have been done in many places, from which good effects have been achieved and also rich experience is accumulated.
The balanced development of China’s rural and urban health care insurance can eliminate the institutional barrier for the urban and rural transient population from the same place, and resolve the problem of protecting their rights to enjoy the health care insurance as well. At the mean time, it can fully exercise the supervision and control effect of health care insurance on medical treatment services, fundamentally solves the problems in the supervision mechanism of new rural cooperative medical care system, and also promotes the healthy development of the whole health care undertaking in China.