TCM Gaoyuan

Chapter 378 Cooperative Medical Trends
"Dean, your letter."

"Put it on the table." Gao Yuan pointed casually, then continued to process the documents with his head down.After becoming the dean, all kinds of chores are inevitable.In the middle of writing, Gao Yuan raised his eyes and glanced at the letter on the corner of the table.

"Huh?" Gao Yuan quickly put away his pen and put the half-written document aside.He reached for the letter, opened it, and read it carefully.

"Greetings, Teacher Gao. I haven't seen you for a long time. I wish you good health and success in your work. I'm fine in Huo Township. The clinic has been open for several years. I'm practicing medicine and farming at the same time. Yes. Compared to previous years, it has improved a lot..."

Gao Yuan couldn't help showing a smile, it was Huo Xiang's ten thousand catties of grain.Huo Xiang's group of rural doctors was the first batch he trained. After so many years, some of them died in accidents, and some of them gave up being doctors, but the old roots are still those people.

Rural medical care has been reformed a few years ago. Barefoot doctors have become independent rural doctors, and all township health centers are basically contracted out.The country doctor no longer reports to the health center, and the two parties no longer have close contact.

But Huo Xiang's situation is quite special, and the relationship with Gao Yuan is even more special.So for so many years, these rural doctors in Huo Township have written a letter to Gao Yuan every half a month, telling Gao Yuan the current medical and health situation in the village.

No matter how busy Gao Yuan was, he would definitely write back to them one by one.

In the letter, Wan Jinliang once again mentioned the rural cooperative medical care. With the cooperative medical care, the life of their rural doctors will be much easier.They started to do maternal and child health care and disease prevention in the village again, because part of the money in the cooperative medical care will be allocated to subsidize them.

Although it is still unavoidable that some farmers complain that the cooperative medical service charges are too high and it is not cost-effective, especially those who do not get sick all year round, but such people are a minority.For others, as long as there are several illnesses in a year, the cooperative medical care is still cost-effective.Especially compared with those without insurance, there is a big gap.

Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, and everyone is not sure about the future. No one knows whether they will get sick next year, and the cooperative medical care only has one chance to participate in a year.Although there are quite a few people complaining, the number of people participating in the insurance has risen again this year, and now more than [-]% of the people are participating in the insurance.

Seeing this, the smile on the corner of Gao Yuan's mouth widened again. He turned to the next page and continued reading.

After Wan Jinliang finished talking about his medical condition, he mentioned a few more things about himself. He is now a grandfather, and his son just gave birth to a granddaughter for him, so he wanted to invite Gao Yuan to his house to drink the child's first-year wine. I just don't know if Gao Yuan is free.

At the end, he also talked about the changes in Huo Xiang.The elementary school in their village that has been in disrepair and the dilapidated junior high school in the village have reported to the higher authorities several times before, but to no avail. This time, they finally approved the money for repairs.They also heard that the county was going to build a machine farming road to Huo Township, and that it would also be open to buses. Everyone was very concerned about this matter, so they wanted to ask Gao Yuan in the county for news.

After reading the whole letter, Gao Yuan's mood also experienced several ups and downs. He looked out of the window and thought of Wang Hanzhang and that key joint venture pharmaceutical factory again.Without that factory, the school in Huoxiang would not know when it would have the money to repair it, and there would be no news that it would build roads and open to traffic.

He once again thought about Wang Hanzhang's discussion about eating and curing diseases. If he only has one yuan in his hand, should he treat the disease first or eat first?Too much investment in medical treatment will definitely affect the problem of food, because now there is only one dollar in my pocket.But it is impossible for a person to live without getting sick.

Therefore, under the premise of ensuring enough food, the only way to make the medical industry develop rapidly is to face the market.But the market is a double-edged sword. Under the premise of insufficient investment from the state, it can stimulate vitality and rise against the trend, but this will definitely bring all kinds of chaos.

Just like his own Chinese medicine hospital, although Gao Yuan took back the control of the contracting department and stepped on the brakes on the previous chaos, he still couldn't solve the problem of the rapid rise of medical expenses.There are still many families who have returned to poverty due to illness, especially farmers who have no security.

Perhaps in the future when the country is extremely rich, this dilemma can be solved.But during this long period, there is only one way to alleviate this contradiction.

"Cooperative medical care." Gao Yuan said the word again. Urban residents still have public medical care. For farmers who have nothing, cooperative medical care is their best protection.

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After the matter of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was settled, Gao Yuan ran around again, reporting the situation of the two pilot projects to the higher authorities, requesting that the new cooperative medical care be gradually rolled out.At the same time, he went to various township health centers and village clinics to learn about the situation and solicit willingness to participate in insurance.

In this matter, Wang Hanzhang was very supportive of him, and he also wrote a more detailed report and sent it up with relevant data.After obtaining the license, rural cooperative medical care has been rolled out in every township in their county.

Zhangzhuang and Huoxiang were the first to do it, and after a few years, [-]% of the people have participated in the insurance.For the first time in other townships, the participation rate was around [-]%. Faced with this statistic, Gao Yuan was already very satisfied.

After all, when Zhang Zhuang and Huo Xiang started their business, they didn't even have [-]% of the insurance participants. This is the result of his mouth.But now other townships have started much higher, and Gao Yuan believes that it will get better and better in the future.

Although Gao Yuan is the director of the TCM hospital, he spends more time in the countryside than in the TCM hospital.

After Qian Luhua was beaten, he stopped for a long time and never showed up.

Gao Yuan was so busy that he had long forgotten about this guy.Wang Hanzhang was more cautious than Gao Yuan, and he had always paid attention to Qian Luhua.

Gao Yuan often wrote letters to pilots in several other regions, asking them about the development of cooperative medical care there.The situation varies from place to place, some are developing well and some are not doing so well.There have even been cases of embezzlement and misappropriation of cooperative medical funds in some places, and some have been resisted by local farmers and forced to terminate.

But generally speaking, the development trend is still good.

Judging from the national rural cooperative medical insurance participation rate, it was only 1989% in 4.8, rose to 1991% in 8.8, and rose to 1992% in 11.6, showing a slow upward trend.It is incomparable with the insurance participation rate of 90.00% and above in the collectivization era, but the overall upward trend is good and can be expected.

Just time, came 1993.

(End of this chapter)