Ethical Meaning and Problems of Urban Medical Insurance Reform
- VernacularTitle:城镇医保改革的伦理意义及其问题
- Author:
Weihua YANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
self-determination,duty,justice
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
1995;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The forepassed socialized medicine system for urban workers has many ethical faults. The institutional reform on the social medical insurance for urban workers will readjust the relationships between government, hospitals, employers and patients. It means much to ethics, and impulses the basic health service towards self-determination, duty and justice. But it has some problems about the responsibility of government,the sanction of hospitals and the burden of patients. At last,the paper offers some suggestions for improvement.
