Don't let "rice hang, cat starve"
It is known that currently the health insurance fund in our province has a large surplus. In 2011, according to the answer of the Director of the Department of Health in the recent question-and-answer session before the Provincial People's Council, that figure was about 70 billion VND! The question here is: Why do we have such a large surplus? Is it the fault of the management or the people?
(Baonghean)It is known that currently the health insurance fund in our province has a large surplus. In 2011, according to the answer of the Director of the Department of Health in the recent question-and-answer session before the Provincial People's Council, that figure was about 70 billion VND! The question here is: Why do we have such a large surplus? Is it the fault of the management or the people?
Public opinion believes that the first basic reason is that the prescribed price of medicine for each medical examination and treatment is too low. In Nga My commune (Tuong Duong), the Chairman of the People's Committee said: The commune has 4,500 people, poor households account for 81% (this group is not provided with health insurance). However, in the first 6 months of this year, the health station was only allocated 80 million VND for medicine. There is little medicine, each patient is prescribed a prescription worth no more than 99,000 VND per visit! The price of medicine is low, and there is no medicine for the right disease, many sick people stay home, not wanting to go to the health station.
Second, according to the explanation of the responsible sector officials: The issuance of social insurance cards is too slow every year, causing people who are sick before they have the card to suffer. This problem is clearly not caused by the people or the related sectors but by management.
Third, because the quality of medical examination and treatment at district and provincial levels is still low, but they want to keep patients there, while the patient's family sees that the disease is getting more serious and wants to be treated at a place with high quality, they have to risk transferring to a higher level, accepting the loss of their health insurance benefits.
I hope that those who manage this field will quickly learn from their experience so that people will not suffer the consequences of "hanging rice and starving cats", especially in localities where the number of poor households is still very large like our province.
Thanh Nam
