Why do hospitals charge registration fees?

Zhengzhou well-known netizen "Changchun China" last night on the microblogging an article attracted the attention of netizens: "a serious cold to register an emergency room, the registration fee is 20 yuan, previously 5 yuan. We all say, after the health care reform, we feel that the cost of medicine is up or down?"

To treat a cold, a registration fee of 20 yuan, compared to the previous four times. So is this what the new health care reform has brought about that doesn't look good? That may not be the case.

One of the biggest features of the health care reform is the abolition of registration fees, which have been changed to consultation fees. In the eyes of the people, isn't it the same thing under a different name?

The industry recognizes that the focus of this reform is to adjust the price of medical services, including the abolition of the policy of drug markup (except for traditional Chinese medicine), reduce the price of large-scale equipment inspection and testing, and increase the price of items reflecting the value of the technical labor of health care personnel. In layman's terms, it's more expensive to see a doctor and cheaper to take medicine.

The consultation fee is divided into Western medicine consultation fee, Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment fee, emergency consultation fee, hospitalization consultation fee. Different levels of specialists, the corresponding consultation fees are not the same.

The registration fee "upgraded" to diagnostic fees, the price rose more than twice, many outpatients called more expensive, but for chronic patients who take medication all year round, the health care reform allows them to save a lot of money each year on medication.

In the netizen's view, generally confident in the benefits of this health care reform, such as netizen I5239 said, "No problem, the nuclear magnetism dropped more than 100, laboratory fees are also less. Even if the surgical fee has risen, do not worry, surgical fee belongs to hospitalization, in the health insurance directory, belongs to the scope of reimbursement. In addition who will be hospitalized every day for surgery."

Netizen Bicycle Ballad said, "The purpose of this reform is not to lower medical fees, is the redistribution within the medical system. It was originally medicine for medicine, and it is ready to be changed to technology for medicine."

Netizen Qiaoqiao expressed his dissatisfaction, "Drug prices fell by 1 to 2 yuan, and then the doctor's morning inspection of the ward from 6 yuan once soared to 12 yuan once, the bed fee also rose by one-third, once a day to take the temperature also rose. I don't know anything about lowering costs or anything, just that the overall expenses are more."

So how do you feel about the new health care reform's rising consultation fees?