Public hospitals" luxury

　　BACKGROUND: The National Health and Family Planning Commission recently issued an emergency notice to stop the of public hospitals in to expand too quickly, calling for the suspension of approval of new beds in public hospitals
(according to the June 19 Daily Economic News (blog, Weibo) netizen Weiguo: In recent years, the scale of China's public hospitals has expanded too fast, some hospitals have the pursuit of bed scale, competing to purchase large-scale equipment, improve the unreasonable growth of medical expenses, extensive development problems are more prominent The author thinks that the blind expansion of public hospitals is actually a "luxury disease", in the words of experts is "big debt building, small debt to buy equipment", the phenomenon of eating grain is more common In 2009, the China Hospital Association published data, as of the end of 2008, China's county-level public hospitals alone total debt of 40.6 billion yuan, the average hospital debt of more than 26 million yuan the "luxury disease" of public hospitals not only greatly raises the operating costs, but also increases the burden of people to see a doctor In addition to the "luxury disease", the urgent task is to strictly control the blind expansion The necessary expansion of the hospital, to strictly control the cost, resolutely put an end to luxury At the same time, we should speed up the reform of the medical system, including the compensation system of public hospitals, the assessment of input-output ratio, and so on, through the effective benefit mechanism and benefit assessment, supervision, etc., to curb the public hospital slew, the bad wind (Responsible Editor: HN666)