Legal basis: Article 1 of Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Deepening the Reform of Medical and Health System fully understands the importance, urgency and arduousness of deepening the reform of medical and health system.
Medical and health care is related to the health of hundreds of millions of people and the happiness of thousands of families, and it is a major livelihood issue. Deepening the reform of medical and health system, speeding up the development of medical and health undertakings, adapting to the people's growing medical and health needs, and constantly improving the people's health quality are inevitable requirements for implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and promoting comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economic and social development, important measures for safeguarding social fairness and justice and improving people's quality of life, and important tasks for building a well-off society in an all-round way and a harmonious socialist society.
Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, China's medical and health undertakings have made remarkable achievements. The medical and health service system covering urban and rural areas has basically taken shape, the ability of disease prevention and control has been continuously enhanced, the population covered by medical security has gradually expanded, the level of health science and technology has been rapidly improved, and the people's health level has been significantly improved. The main health indicators of residents rank among the top in developing countries. Especially since the great victory in the fight against SARS, governments at all levels have increased investment, the development of public health, rural medical care and urban community health has accelerated, and the new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents have made breakthroughs, laying a good foundation for deepening the reform of the medical and health system. At the same time, we should also see that the contradiction between the development level of China's medical and health undertakings and the people's health needs and the requirements of coordinated economic and social development is still outstanding. The development of medical and health undertakings in urban and rural areas and regions is unbalanced, the allocation of resources is unreasonable, public health and rural and community medical and health work are relatively weak, the medical security system is not perfect, the order of drug production and circulation is not standardized, the hospital management system and operation mechanism are not perfect, the government's health investment is insufficient, the medical expenses are rising too fast, the personal burden is too heavy, and the people reflect strongly.