The truth about free healthcare is not a perk, it's a trap
Free medical care, sounds like a very beautiful word, but in recent years, the most proposed agenda of the National People's Congress deputies, but it has not been passed for various reasons, some people may say that even India has engaged in free medical care, we China is so far ahead of India, why can't we achieve free medical care? But to be honest, I have never supported China's free medical care?
Because free medical care is not really free, but comes at a higher price. Whether it is France, Britain or India, as long as free medical care is implemented, it will cause a shortage and waste of medical resources, a decline and injustice in the quality of medical care, and a transfer of medical costs.
Free medical care will cause a shortage and waste of medical resources, because free medical care will stimulate people's unlimited demand, resulting in major and minor illnesses to go to the doctor, occupy hospital beds and equipment, squeeze out the doctor's time and energy, and cause the unreasonable allocation of medical resources. In this way, people who really need medical treatment will suffer from long queues and waiting, and even cannot get timely treatment, while some people who do not need medical treatment can enjoy free services at will, resulting in a waste of medical resources.
Free medical care will cause a decline and injustice in the quality of medical care, because free medical care will discourage the enthusiasm and innovation of doctors, resulting in a decline in doctors' income and treatment, backward doctors' level and technology, and deterioration of doctors' attitudes and services. In this way, the quality of medical care will be greatly reduced, the medical effect will be greatly reduced, and the medical safety will be greatly reduced. At the same time, free medical care will also lead to the loss of high-quality medical resources to private hospitals and clinics, resulting in the polarization of medical care, only the rich can enjoy good medical care, while the poor can only tolerate poor medical care, resulting in medical inequality.
Free medical care will cause medical expenses to be passed on, because free medical care is not really free, but to rely on the financial expenditure to maintain, and the financial expenditure depends on the taxpayer's tax to provide, and the taxpayer's tax depends on the economic development to increase, and the economic development depends on social stability to guarantee. In this way, free medical care will form a vicious circle, the higher the cost of medical care, the greater the pressure of taxes, the heavier the burden on the economy, and the more problems in society. And these problems will eventually be passed on to the people, leading to a decline in the living standards of the people, leading to a decrease in the people's education and pension expenditures.
Therefore, many problems cannot be just looked at the surface, as if free medical care, everyone does not have to pay for it, but in fact, free medical care is a trap, a practice to quench thirst, and an unsustainable model. The real medical reform should be people-oriented, demand-oriented, efficiency-oriented, fairness-based, innovation-driven, technology-supported, market-regulated, regulated, regulated, and development-oriented, to establish a medical system that meets social needs, meets people's expectations, conforms to national conditions, and has Chinese characteristics.