Advancements in the National Health Insurance Program
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The direction of reform in the medical insurance system includes a third party purchase mechanism that is developing towards becoming a national health insurance system and the development of medical services available in the public medical insurance organizations on behalf of the policyholder benefits to purchases medical services. The realization of a national health insurance program and the formation of a third party purchase mechanism will involve many institutional details and heavy responsibility. The reform strategy for the medical service system has two approaches. The first approach is to partially or comprehensively restore and develop the public health administrative departments planned management and administrative control of public medical institutions. The second is to encourage all medical institutions to move towards market management. In recent years, the development of an urban and rural community medical service system has become a primary goal in national health policy.