Poor people and low-income people are the key targets of medical assistance, but the specific content needs to be approved by the local civil affairs department. The poverty-stricken people who set up files and set up cards in rural areas were identified by the local poverty alleviation department.
Medical assistance refers to the special help and support provided by the state and society to citizens who are unable to treat diseases because of poverty. Usually, under the leadership of relevant government departments, through medical institutions and with extensive social participation, it is a rescue operation to restore the health of poor patients and maintain their basic viability. The level of medical assistance should be commensurate with the level of economic development. Medical assistance guarantees basic medical services for residents in difficulty, and the contents of basic medical services have different connotations in different economic development periods. The low level of protection may result in the balance of relief funds, but the people who need assistance cannot benefit; High security level is not conducive to cost control, but also increases the financial burden. Therefore, medical assistance should follow the principle of "low level and wide coverage". First of all, it is necessary to ensure that low-level assistance can meet the basic health service requirements of the recipients, and give priority to expanding the coverage of assistance rather than improving the level of protection when funds permit.
Summing up experience through pilot projects, continuous improvement and steady development. With the development of economy and society and the increase of residents' income, the medical assistance system will be gradually improved. In China, the establishment of rural medical assistance system or urban medical assistance system follows the principle of pilot first and then promotion. According to the special situation of each region, the system arrangement was made on the basis of careful investigation, and valuable experience was summarized, which laid a practical foundation for the establishment of medical assistance system in China.
laws and regulations
Temporary measures of social assistance
Article 29 Medical assistance shall take the following forms:
(a) the individual payment part of the basic medical insurance for urban residents or the new rural cooperative medical system;
(two) to subsidize the basic medical expenses that individuals and their families can not afford after the basic medical insurance, serious illness insurance and other supplementary medical insurance are paid. The standard of medical assistance shall be determined and published by the people's governments at or above the county level according to the level of economic and social development and the situation of medical assistance funds.