To help people reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses from 43% to 23%

Lê Thanh Phong |

It is not appropriate for people to pay up to 43% out of pocket when going to see a doctor or get medical treatment. It is necessary to recalculate this payment level. The purpose of Health Insurance (HI) is to reduce the cost burden for people when accessing medical services, but having to pay high is not really effective.

Experts analyze the reason why patients have to pay for medical services is still high because medical facilities collect additional money from patients, the cost has been included in the price structure of medical examination and treatment services paid by social insurance. This means that medical facilities collect twice for the same service, which means that it is not fair to patients. Not to mention, collecting service fees twice is a violation, if calculated carefully, over the years it is not a small amount of money. After all, that money is the patient's own money.

The second reason is inaccurate service pricing, to put it bluntly, charging higher prices. This needs to be corrected, the price of medical examination and treatment services must be clear and transparent. Medical facilities need to calculate the correct and sufficient price of services to take good care of patients, have the financial resources to pay high salaries to medical staff, but cannot let the situation of price increase happen. In the medical environment, the "customer" is the patient, the unfortunate, there are many poor people, do not add more burden to them.

The third reason is that the medicines in the health insurance list are limited, patients have to pay out of pocket to buy them. Letting patients' families buy medical supplies or medicines is unacceptable, even more unreasonable when those items are covered by health insurance.

This limitation is easy to overcome. In addition to providing enough medicine and medical supplies for hospitals, it is necessary to study and supplement health insurance packages and add funding for medical examination and treatment from the health insurance fund. In addition, it is necessary to expand the list of personal preventive services paid for by the health insurance fund.

In recent times, patients with health insurance have enjoyed increasingly better quality services, and the situation of "discrimination" has also "reduced". However, there must be effective reforms so that patients not only receive good medical care, but also reduce the burden of costs.

Health care is one of the measures of civilization, when people receive high quality medical examination and treatment at low cost, that is the quality of civilization.

Lê Thanh Phong
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