(Beijing Comprehensive News) The economic recovery after the Chinese epidemic is slow, and the increase in premiums increases the family burden. Tens of millions of Chinese people, especially farmers, choose to withdraw from the world's largest medical security system -China Medical Insurance.
According to statistics from the National Medical Security Bureau of China, the number of basic medical insurance participants in China was 134.592 million by the end of 2022, a decrease of 17.05 million from the previous year.Among them, employee medical insurance increased by 812,000, and residents' medical insurance decreased by 25.17 million.
According to the British Financial Times, in the eight provinces that have been announced in the first nine months of the first nine months, the seven provinces have shown a downward trend.
China National Medical Insurance Bureau responded earlier that some residents turned to participate in employees' medical insurance, and repeated insurance reduction, coupled with urbanization, population aging and declining childization, the future data still declined.
China Business News reported that Hua Ying, an associate researcher at the Institute of Labor and Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that it does not rule out that some residents have abandoned the insurance due to the burden of payment.
Reporting statistics, the minimum medical insurance premiums have doubled since 2018. The average salary of migrant workers has increased by only 24%at the same time, while rural policy holders are facing up to 50%to 70%of their own payment in large cities hospitals.Yang Lixiong, a professor at the School of Labor and Personnel of Renmin University of China, said that the current farmers have difficulty increasing income, and the growth rate of medical insurance is too fast. In addition, the income distribution is unevenly. If the payment is continuously increased, some people may abandon insurance.
The report quotes the warning close to the Ministry of Finance, the cancellation of insurance or in the underdeveloped regions in China constitutes a "serious health risk". Some farmers' families have stopped paying premiums for their children.At present, the primary goal of these families is to save money. If a serious disease occurs, the cost of high treatment may lead to bankruptcy.
Wang Dan, chief economist of Hang Seng Bank, pointed out that the lack of strong medical insurance coverage forced the Chinese to increase savings to cope with external impacts such as serious illness, which weakened the government's efforts to promote consumption, and consumption is China.The key to economic recovery.
