Restructuring Government Regulation in the process of Marketization：A Study of China’s Hospital System
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Tu, Pei-Fen
Abstract
In recent years, the existence of expensive medical bills and difficult access to quality medical services are growing worser in the Chnia. The image of public hospitals is providing reasonable and afforadble medical services to the public. However, the problem of inadequate and costly medical services in China does not find the solution by the high coverage of public hospitals. By analysing a series of regulating policies about hospitals, from the admittance into the market, the fiscal and taxation policies and the medical service price policy. The existing situation is that government implement differential policies between public hospital and private hospital. Furthermore, the author explores that how the government regulating the operation of public hospital. Finally, the author examines the regulation of the charging fee from patients and prescribing prescription behavior by hospitals and physicians. It comes to conclusions. First, the author finds that the government implements the differential policies between public and private hospitals as the result of balancing the interests of all interested parties, not resulting from the public hospitals capturing the department of government. Second, the regulating agency plays a role of player and also a referee at the same time. It is doubtful to people that whether the regulating agency is fair or not. Finally, the penalties are not comprehensive and severe enough for the hospitals and physicians to obey.
Subjects
China’s hospital system
public hospital
regulating agency
regulating policy
penalty
Type
thesis