| Establishing the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme(NRCMS) is the important part of the rural health care service in the coming years, it has great significance on improving the ability against catastrophic disease and promoting rural health care service reform, which make for the development of the rural economy and social stability. In January, 2003, the central government decided to set up pilot sites on the NRCMS, and proposed the object that is establishing this scheme throughout the country by the year of 2010. Up to December, 2008, 2729 counties has been covered by NRCMS, the rate of participating in NRCMS accounts to 91.5%, accumulated fund expenditures in NRCMS is 42.9biliion, accumulated benefit is 0.37biliion, which plays an important role on relieving Chinese farmers from poverty caused by illness. With the NRCMS becoming the basic rural health care service, whether it can be a sustainable development system and how it could realize the sustainable development attract public attentions.This paper is to make qualitative analysis on the policies of NRCMS which comes out in Sichuan province by Health Economics and New Institutional Economics and to take analysis and quantitative evaluation on the main Performance Indicators in 2007, such as the Rate of Participating in NRCMS, per-capita financing level, outpatient benefit factor etc. Meanwhile, we are going to find out the characteristic and deficiency of NRCMS in order to put forward the countermeasures and proposals.From this study, following conclusions are drawn: the rate of participating in NRCMS, per-capita financing level, benefit factor are enhanced greatly, which plays an important role on relieving Chinese farmers from poverty caused by illness. Meanwhile, there is some questions in NRCMS, such as cost of management and run in fund is high, the worker in NRCMS is less, the rate of deposit in fund is high, so we must take some measures to promote NRCMS sustainable development. |
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