Legal analysis: health insurance collective purchasing is the national health insurance bureau stands in the position of hospitals and patients, to have the same active ingredients and dosage forms of drugs to choose a unified procurement, price negotiation, so as to reshape the ecology of the pharmaceutical market, reduce the price of drugs. Seeing the health insurance band purchasing means that the formulation of the health insurance drug catalog, the determination of the price to be paid by the health insurance, and the negotiation of the purchase price of drugs will be united. This greatly increases the voice of state power in medicine and breaks the fetishization of free markets and vulgar economics.
Legal basis: The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 2 The state establishes a social insurance system for basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and other social insurance, and guarantees the right of citizens to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in the event of old age, sickness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.
Article 26 The standards of treatment for basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the State.
Article 28 Medical expenses that conform to the basic medical insurance drug catalog, diagnostic and therapeutic items, standards of medical service facilities, as well as those for emergency and rescue shall be paid from the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with the state regulations.