Analysis On The Deep Reasons Of High Drug Price And Corresponding Police References In China

In recent years, "expensive medical bills and difficult access to quality medical services " has become a hot social issue. With years of significant increase in total health expenditure, the proportion of the expenditure in GDP is rising too. Although in recent years, with the establishment of a new rural cooperative medical care system and the rising popularity of a variety of urban health insurances, our various forms of medical care have achieved a coverage of 80%, reimbursement rate is generally low. People still pay a large proportion of medical costs, and health care costs grow faster than personal income. "Expensive medical bills and difficult access to quality medical services" is a serious problem. In the total medical costs that discharged patients and outpatients have paid for, the proportion of drug expense takes up to 40%-60% while the percentage is 5% to 20% in the member countries of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),20% in Japan, which are significantly lower than that in China. The high drug cost in the medical process is an important and direct contributor to the high cost of health care in our country.The prices of medicines are unreasonably high currently, which means the drug prices are drastically higher than the production cost. Therefore, drug price control can greatly ease the problem of expensive medical treatment, and greatly reduce the medical burden of ordinary people. Drug is a special commodity which is directly related to people's physical and mental health. Formidable price not only increases people's financial burden, making medical treatment more unaccessible, but also seriously affects and disturbs the normal pharmaceutical production and operation, causing commercial bribery and other social corruption, fueling the spread of unhealthy practices, bringing long-term instability to the entire community and a great threat to the harmonious development. Therefore, solving the problem of high medicine prices is very important. It can promote the establishment of a reasonable order of drug prices, the healthy development of the medicine industry, and the improvement of the public health and welfare.Artificially instigated high drug price is a syndrome rooted in China's abuses of the medical system. Medicine production enterprises, medical institutions and government departments are all responsible for the problems including the drug production and distribution system, the hospital's operating system of "double monopoly", the "supporting hospital with medicine" in medical institutions, the economic compensation mechanism, the medical sector pay system, the mode of drug price regulation, the existing system of medical insurance, the unreasonable drug pricing, and the rent-seeking phenomenon in the process of drug registration. It is a comprehensive project to solve the problem of high medicine prices. Our country should comprehensively improve the medical system from the aspects mentioned above, and take advantage of governmental power. Some policy suggestions were proposed in the present thesis, based on the success of medicine price control in developed countries,...