First of all, medical service itself is a high-cost industry. Medical organizations need to pay for human resources, equipment, buildings, insurance and so on. All of these costs are directly or indirectly reflected in the patient's cost of care.
Secondly, the demand for medical services is very elastic. Many hospitals have adopted the strategy of "low price for medical services and high price for medicines", i.e., attracting patients by lowering the cost of medical services, but making profits from the sale of medicines by using a high price strategy. This has resulted in many patients being sold high priced medicines and redundant tests when purchasing medicines, which has increased the cost of care for patients.
Lastly, information asymmetry in the healthcare services market is also one of the reasons for the high cost of medical care. Patients lack professional knowledge about diseases and find it difficult to make accurate judgments about medical services and medicines, while doctors and medical institutions have more professional knowledge and information advantages, and are prone to increase the cost of medical care through sales promotion and over-treatment, among other means.
In summary, the implementation of zero-differential pricing for medicines in Chinese hospitals does not completely solve the problem of high costs of medical care, and needs to be in all aspects of the **** the same efforts to strengthen the regulation of the medical services market, improve the health insurance system, and improve the health literacy of patients.