Research On Rural Medical Insurance Legal System In China

The new rural cooperative medical system is our country’s rural medical insurancesystem which is established to solve the farmers’ medical care problem. As the currentrural medical insurance system in our country, the new rural cooperative medical caresystem has played an extremely important role on reducing the medical burden offarmers and improving the level of medical care service.Although China is now entering a new urban community-based growth stage, butwe can not underestimate the farmers’ medical insurance who account the majority ofChina’s population. Because the physical health of farmers related to the development ofagriculture, and agriculture as‘mother industry’ is the foundation of the nationaleconomy, whose importance and status can not be ignored. Farmer’s physical health isclosely related to the rural medical insurance system. Therefore, the study of ruralmedical insurance system and perfecting the rural medical insurance system in ourcountry are help to improve the health quality of rural residents and promote thedevelopment of agricultural economy, so as to ensure the steady development of China’seconomy and society.Rural medical care system in China has experienced the germination and start-up,development and prosperity, decline and collapse, recovery and development stages.China’s current rural medical insurance system is gradually built up on the basis ofsumming up lessons learned from previous rural health care system. The main contentsof the new rural cooperative medical system include the aspects of the overall level ofrural medical insurance system, medical fund raising, management organization andsupervision mechanisms. The system has played an active role in the course of itsoperation, but it also exposed many problems. The main problems of the rural medicalinsurance system in the operation reflect in backward legislation, the low overall level,imperfect supervision mechanism and so on. To enable rural residents to enjoy goodhealth care services, promote rural economic development and keep society economy development stable, appropriate measures must be taken to improve China’s ruralmedical insurance legal system.Many countries abroad have made outstanding achievements in building ruralmedical insurance aspects of the legal system. Therefore, in order to improve China’srural medical insurance legal system, the paper also has a study on the UK, Germany,Brazil and Thailand’s rural medical insurance system, and the author analyses the ruralmedical insurance system, and thus summed up reference value measures for theperfection of legal system of rural medical insurance system in China. This paper is basedon the problems China’s rural medical insurance legal system has exposed in the runningprocess, and combines with important implications abroad rural medical insurancesystem for China. This chapter elaborates the principles that we improve the ruralmedical insurance system should stick to. The principles include the principle of the ruleof law, taking account of fairness and efficiency and so on. The paper puts forward thespecific countermeasures from the rural medical insurance legislation and theimplementation mechanism to perfect the rural medical insurance system. The specificcountermeasures mainly include perfecting relevant laws and improving the overalllevel, increasing investment in rural medical insurance and establishing comprehensivesupervision mechanism and so on.