For a long time, it has become ingrained in people's minds that going to the doctor is expensive and difficult. Nowadays, you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for any kind of disease, and if you have a major surgery, tens of millions of dollars is normal. So why are surgeries so expensive? In the current healthcare system, many medical supplies of the same level are about twice as expensive at home as they are abroad.
/48540923dd54564ea13db4f0b8de9c82d0584f9a?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85In 2015, an esophageal cancer minimally invasive surgery using imported surgical instruments cost 20,000-30,000 yuan, while in developed regions such as the United States, the same instruments cost only about 10,000 yuan. At present, more than 60% of a surgery, more than 60% of the patient's expenditure, is the cost of medical consumables. Surgical and anesthesia fees account for less than 20%. So doctors don't make much money. If the pure surgical fee is $10,000 a unit, doctors and nurses are paid around 7%. Split between a few people, and the main surgery is only 200 bucks.
/18d8bc3eb13533fabdeec3e7a3d3fd1f40345b9a?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85Domestic prices for medical consumables remain high. Much of this is due to China's over-reliance on high-value consumables. Some foreign medical giants hold the technological monopoly of high-value consumables. It is difficult for China to achieve a breakthrough in research and development and production in the short term, so it can only rely on imports. The prices of these imported medical equipment in China are generally 50% to 100% higher than those in countries of origin such as Europe, America and Japan. For example, the domestic introduction of nano-knife technology, a machine sold in the United States for five or six million yuan, China is tens of millions of dollars.
/0b55b319ebc4b745ced5e7dfc4fc1e178b8215b1?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85Importing from abroad is already very expensive, and back home The medical equipment also has to go through many layers of dealers to raise the price. This equipment has not yet reached the hospital, the "price" may have doubled several times. And at present our country in the procurement of medical supplies, are by the hospitals independent procurement of openness and transparency is low, there may be some gray chain exists. The problem of expensive surgery is still a long way from being solved," he said.
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