CPPCC Standing Committee: Public hospital equipment, supplies should be first heavy quality and then price

"The purpose of medical behavior is to cure and save people, the first consideration is safety and effectiveness. While expanding the level and coverage of medical services, we must adhere to the principle of life first and quality first, and not just take controlling expenditure and reducing costs as the goal of reform. "At present, the inflated price of medicine has become the focus of medical reform, in the face of a "one-size-fits-all" approach to price reduction, the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Chen Shaojun said he did not agree.
he gave examples: some places the pursuit of low prices led to some drug shortages, such as line mycobacteria D, domestic pharmaceutical companies are unprofitable or stop production, or lower standards. Some places to medical examination equipment, supplies, etc. are all included in the cost accounting, such as CT film charges reduced, or even allowed to charge film fees, hospitals have to reduce the size of the picture, difficult to meet the needs of reading, resulting in a decline in the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment. There are also places to domestic drug prices to determine imported drugs, resulting in some of the exact efficacy of imported drugs because of higher pricing difficulties in access to health insurance.
, Chen Shaojun submitted a proposal this year on practical solutions to problems related to the pricing of medicines and medical services. He suggested increasing government spending and expanding medicare reimbursements. "Commercial health insurance could be supplemented by a certain percentage of the existing health insurance fund, combined with government input, to link commercial insurance and health insurance."
At the same time, the implementation of unified national bidding, the establishment of a reasonable pricing system, can learn from foreign countries by the state centralized procurement practices, for the national and global outstanding pharmaceutical companies to bid, unified procurement, to avoid intermediate profit overlay. Reform the cost accounting system for medical equipment and supplies in public hospitals. He pointed out that public hospitals medical equipment, supplies should be borne by the Government, first pay attention to quality and effectiveness, followed by price comparison.
addition, Chen Shaojun also proposed the establishment of new drugs, new technologies and imported pharmaceutical equipment reagent evaluation system. While new drugs are approved for market and new equipment and new technologies are approved for use, medical authorities and price departments are simultaneously introducing new charging standards and making them available to patients, and guiding and regulating medical units and medical personnel' fees in a timely and timely way to facilitate patient supervision. (Pharmaceutical Network)