During the two sessions, Zhang Qicheng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, once again mentioned "free medical care for all", which attracted widespread attention. Zhang Qicheng's point of view can be simply summarized in a few sentences: the current medical chaos, excessive medication, expensive medical treatment, etc., the essential reason is that medicine is a revenue-generating unit and has profit demands.
If the hospital is untied from profit, there will naturally be no "excess" and "waste". How to unbind it? Zhang Qicheng's prescription is: financial support, do a good job in pharmaceutical procurement, vigorously develop public hospitals, and public hospitals are no longer income-generating units.
Hospitals are only able to see patients, and doctors' incomes have increased. The resulting increase in expenditures is due to the fact that the money from the left pocket goes into the right pocket because of the fiscal back. Ordinary patients enjoy the benefits of free medical care, and their satisfaction will increase.
It's a pity that some so-called experts think that this proposal that the common people are in favor of will not work, free medical care, and there are ready-made cases abroad, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, India, and so on. Whether it is free medical care, there will inevitably be two direct consequences.
The first is a run on medical resources. There are so many resources, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. All come to see a doctor, to whom and not to whom? Everyone is the same person, the queue is the fairest, and the last is the increase in the difficulty of queuing.
According to the national conditions, maybe it will be a way to cut the queue again? If resources are not allocated to the market, there will naturally be other allocation paths.
The second is the increasing financial burden. The wool comes out of the sheep, and it always costs money to see a doctor, and it does not come out of the individual's pocket, and in the end it is nothing more than a burden on medical insurance and finances. There is no money directly to the hospital, but is it really saved like that?
Indeed, it is very difficult to implement free medical care for all in the current medical environment dominated by Western medicine! Because of the defects of Western medicine itself, because of the wrong understanding and mistakes of Western medicine itself, many of the treatment thinking and methods of Western medicine are wrong, they like to use "violent" methods to perform surgery, excision, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., which violates the law of harmonious growth and growth of the human body, so it is often the more the more the disease, the more the disease is treated, the more powerful the disease! As a result, there is a strange phenomenon that the more investment, the more patients, and the shorter the lifespan! The United States is a prominent representative in this regard!
Let's take a look at the authoritative report of 2020-10-26 "CCTV News": high medical costs have not led to an increase in national life expectancy. The United States spends the most on health care per capita in the world. According to OECD data in 2019, the United States spends $11,072 per capita on health care (purchasing power parity), far ahead of the second place Switzerland ($7,732), and far behind Germany ($6,646), the United Kingdom ($4,653), and Japan ($4,823). Not only that, but the United States' total annual medical spending is higher than that of Europe and Japan, and twice as much as its military spending. What is not commensurate with the huge medical investment of the United States is that the life expectancy of the population in the United States is lower than that of Western European countries, Japan, and South Korea, and is the lowest among developed countries. Former White House senior adviser Izzikiel Emmanuel pointed out that "the United States accounts for less than 5 percent of the world's population, but pays for 50 percent of the world's drug sales." According to the Kessel Family**, a public health nonprofit in the United States, at least 19 million American adults have to travel to countries such as Canada or Mexico to buy drugs because of high domestic drug prices.
2022-10-28Southern Weekly also reported that the United States is a global leader in the field of medicine and is the "leader" of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and other fields. Currently, the average annual health care expenditure in the United States is 3At about $6 trillion, it is equivalent to five times its military spending and more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of its ally Britain.
The United States has long been criticized for its health care performance, spending more than 18% of gross domestic product (GDP) and having the second-lowest life expectancy among OECD countries. In fiscal 2020, it spent nearly 3$6 trillion, or 17 percent of gross national product (GNP). In 2022, U.S. health care spending accounted for 18% of GDP and per capita health care spending was 1$30,000, almost 10 times that of China, 3 times that of Japan, but the life expectancy of Americans is 76At the age of 3, it ranks 58th in the world, lower than most Western countries and has fallen to a new low since 2000.
From the above, it can be seen that "the United States is a global leader in the field of medicine and is the leader of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and other fields", and Western medicine in the United States is quite developed. And the country's investment is also quite high, accounting for more than 18% of gross domestic product (GDP), equivalent to 5 times its military spending, but the average life expectancy is the countdown! This is a very thought-provoking question!
It can be seen that the implementation of universal free medical care in the medical environment dominated by Western medicine on the one hand increases the financial burden, and on the other hand, there may be these strange phenomena such as the more investment, the more patients, and the shorter the life expectancy! Obviously, it is not okay to rely on Western medicine to ensure people's health.
We know that nowadays, when everyone goes to the hospital to see a doctor, in addition to the problem of ** and queuing, I am afraid that they don't know which department to see. The departments of the hospital are complicated, such as internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, pediatrics, and a dazzling array of departments, which confuse patients.
There was a patient who had a toothache and went to the dental department to have his tooth extracted, because the doctor's hand shook a little, and the extracted tooth was not clamped firmly and fell into the throat. The doctor instructed the patient to go to the otolaryngology department immediately. The patient ran a little in a hurry, and when he arrived at the laryngology department, a check, the teeth had slipped down to the stomach.
The patient went to the gastroenterology department again, and after a gastroscopy, the missing tooth was no longer in the stomach. In the end, the patient ripped off his pants and cocked his buttocks in the proctology department, and the proctologist pulled it open for an examination and exclaimed: Oh my God, why did you have a tooth in **? Please go to the dental department for tooth extraction!
It's just a joke, of course. However, it can more or less reflect some of the practical shortcomings of medical subspecialties. Many patients go to the hospital and often don't know what department to hang into.
You don't have to think too much about going to a Chinese medicine doctor to see a doctor, there are no cumbersome examinations (many examinations are unnecessary), you don't have to rely on relationships, and you don't have to spend expensive medical expenses ......