Governance cattle up the registration fee is not

The 2016-02-05

Source: health

- autumn real -

For "girls denounced Beijing dealers" event, west China hospital of sichuan university doctor Yang Qing recently published a long weibo "medical treatment is not the doctor's fault, not cattle of wrong, is wrong..." , and in his 20 years of experience and experience, for example, is discussed in the article, dealers of logic is that resources are scarce. He thinks, must through price leverage, to realize efficient allocation of resources, and let go of the registration fee, independent pricing by the doctor. (February 2, the chengdu economic daily)

Yang Qing view makes sense. First of all, the value of China's doctor has been underestimated. If let go of the registration fee control, excellent doctor will stand out, and poor medical ethics and medical doctor will be dismissed, forming good money to expel the effect of bad money. Second, if experts the registration fee increase, the ailment patients will consider the medical cost, more visit source will be left with a real need.

But, in practice, whether can be like Yang Qing, solve common people to see a doctor difficult problem?

First of all, even if the value of the doctor is undervalued, it is not only increases the registration fee as a way to change. Doctor the embodiment of the value can also be done by government investment and income distribution, only pay by patients, might be more expensive.

Second, price benchmarking indeed can further optimize the allocation of resources, but the priorities of the disease, need professional knowledge to judge, so the patient may try to find a good doctor. This kind of psychological is very common, could undermine by shortage of price adjustment, the source.

In addition, although in theory, as long as there is competition, doctors did not dare to rise in price at will, otherwise will lose patients. But it is an ideal state. In fact, patients have no specialized knowledge, it is difficult to judge which the doctor medical skill is higher, so rely on market to decide the doctor's "the price" is able to do it, finally, still need to be.

Markets can solve many problems, but it can't solve every problem. The doctor's treatment indeed need to improve, the medical resources will indeed need to be more reasonable allocation, but at the idea of the price, do not take a variety of ways to plan as a whole solution, ordinary people could afford.