Leading the market "live water" to solve the problem of supply and demand for doctors and patients

According to media reports, the 200 doctors of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics need to receive 1.89 million patients a year. The tension between supply and demand is unimaginable.

The reform of the medical system marked by the establishment of a universal medical social security system is in full swing. The huge financial input of the central and local governments has laid a solid foundation for the establishment of a comprehensive medical insurance system. However, in stark contrast to this reform, medical institutions in major cities throughout the country are still overcrowded.

In view of the overcrowding of medical institutions in major cities, some scholars believe that the fundamental reason lies in insufficient financial input in the field of medical services; in order to fundamentally solve problems, it is necessary to increase the training of pediatricians. But far from hydrolyzing near thirst.

The biggest problem that arises in the current medical field in China is that there are misunderstandings in the way of thinking in the reform. The government has increased investment in medical coverage, but it has still not fully utilized the market's ability to allocate resources. As a result, there have been phenomena of uneven distribution of resources and uneven distribution of income.

The author believes that to solve the problem, we must start from the following aspects: First, the government cannot complete everything in the improvement of China's medical service market, and it must separate the general medical and social services from market-oriented medical services to establish multi-level medical services. Security System. It is the responsibility of the government to establish a universal medical social service system. However, this reform does not exclude the role of the market. On the contrary, the government should do everything possible to encourage practicing doctors to achieve reasonable allocation of resources through competition in accordance with the law.

From the traditional plan to allocate resources to market-oriented reforms, China’s reform of the medical service security system has not gone smoothly. The fundamental way out lies in clarifying the responsibility of the government in providing basic medical service protection, giving full play to the role of market competition, and establishing a relatively balanced medical service market through competition.

Second, we must completely change the principle of China's existing medical resource management, through the amendment of the practicing physician law, allowing practicing physicians to engage in cross-regional medical service activities under the guidance of the law.

Give full play to the subjective initiative of practicing physicians, improve the efficiency of the use of medical resources in China, and maximize the solution to the problems caused by the serious imbalance in the allocation of medical resources in certain areas in China. The level of medical services in Beijing is generally high, which has led to a large number of patients seeking medical advice in Beijing. The fundamental solution to this problem lies in the liberalization of China's medical service market, allowing more practicing doctors to conduct medical services in Beijing under the guidance of the law, and win the trust of customers with their own quality services.

Finally, under the premise of ensuring the continuous improvement of medical service quality, we must further liberalize the medical service market in China and allow more foreign-funded enterprises and practicing physicians to engage in medical service activities in China. At the same time, the medical administrative department should further reduce the threshold for individuals to engage in medical services, allowing more medical graduates to engage in individual medical services. Only in this way can we meet the needs of residents' medical services to the maximum extent possible.