May 12, Xinhua to "the Ministry of Health set off a" rectification campaign "to strictly control the acceptance of kickbacks to red packets" as the title, reprinted the CCTV "News 30 minutes" of a message: Ministry of Health Today, the Ministry of Health announced the "National Health System to carry out corrective medical services in the unhealthy wind special governance implementation program," requiring all medical institutions to effectively curb the acceptance of drug kickbacks, "red packets," "billing commission," arbitrary fees and other unhealthy winds.
The unethical practices in the medical service industry have been around for a long time, and the people hate them. Government departments in order to reverse the situation, issued a lot of documents, taken a number of measures, but the effect is very limited, the trend of unhealthy wind is getting worse. This time, the announcement of the "special management implementation program", should be said to be the body of the people's feelings, the people's heart of a good thing. But this "campaign" type of approach, the final effect will be how, but also to wait and see.
The so-called "campaign", inevitably with the stage, surprise, the lack of permanent institutional protection, or even if there is a system, it is only written on paper, can not be consistently effective implementation. Correspondingly, it is with a very strong subjective arbitrariness, the problem can not treat the symptoms of the root cause. So shrewd people in the "movement" to come, some convergence, to avoid the wind, "movement" a pass, as usual, I do what I do, and even intensified, to "movement" in the "loss" to take back. "The first thing that you need to do is to get rid of all the losses that have been incurred in the past.
I read the news, look at the health sector announced a "special governance measures", mainly five "strictly prohibited". In fact, China has long had the "Chinese People's **** and the State Practitioners Law". The law clearly stipulates that the use of their positions, soliciting, illegally accepting patients' property or other improper interests, by the health administrative departments above the county level to give a warning or order the suspension of more than six months than a year of practice; the circumstances are serious, revocation of their practicing certificates; constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility. "Special governance measures" such as "strictly prohibit medical personnel to accept patients and their families 'red packets' and other gifts," and other provisions, is already an old story, cliché.
Laws and regulations have been clearly stipulated, the government departments have to solemnly reiterate once again, undoubtedly want to set off a "rectification campaign" to cope with the increasingly widespread unhealthy wind. However, successive facts have proved that this unannounced approach can only be a headache, treat the feet, scare the moment, can not solve the problem from the root. Some insiders have pointed out that the repeated unethical practices in China's hospitals are a product of the serious irrationality of the health care system. It is understood that China's health resources account for only 2% of the world's total health resources, but for 20% of the world's population to provide medical services. In this way, the hospital is the "medical boss", the famous hospital is even more so, the patient is difficult to choose freely. No matter how reluctant the patient, the red envelope has become a non-negotiable "necessary" input to get through the joints and access to limited resources.
At the same time, the medical industry is not the most profitable part of the entire pharmaceutical industry. The medical industry is downstream of the entire pharmaceutical industry, with drug distribution in the middle and drug production or introduction in the upper reaches; and above the entire pharmaceutical industry, there are even more regulators of the pharmaceutical industry. As one expert said, at present, the overall medical cost of patients in China, hospitals are charged for the labor costs of medical staff is actually very small, in the total cost accounted for a very small proportion of the total cost - about 5-10%, and these costs are not all paid to the medical staff, so that the medical institutions can only In this way, the medical institutions can only get compensation from the sale of drugs, large medical equipment inspection and the development of new special projects, resulting in the distortion of medical behavior.
It can be seen that behind the phenomenon of doctors receiving red packets, there are problems in the medical system itself. Governance of unethical wind if not from the system to find the crux of the problem, the right medicine, and rely on the "rectification campaign", will only make the unethical people in the body of a hundred refinement, become more cunning, handy, the result of unethical wind into a more difficult to cure the "tumor". Hopefully, our worries are purely superfluous.