Negotiations on the total amount of health insurance reached a consensus, with the growth rate reaching 5.5% for three consecutive years. Consumer representatives called for a live broadcast of the public meeting

Negotiations on the total amount of health insurance ended yesterday. The medical community and consumer representatives reached a consensus that the total growth rate has reached 5.5% for three consecutive years. However, the outside world is worried that today's health insurance will be like "going through the motions." It is difficult for consumer representatives to compete with representatives of the medical industry. They hope to make the meeting public through live broadcast to allow outside supervision. Minister of Health and Welfare Shi Chongliang said that he would discuss it with the members of the National Health Insurance Commission. If there is no other agreement, the discussion may be in this direction.

After 11 hours of negotiation yesterday, the National Health Insurance Council decided that the total amount of health insurance reached 1.43447 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 5.5% for the third consecutive year. It was also the second consecutive year that a consensus was reached on the day of the total amount negotiation, and the growth of the four major sectors The rates all reached the approved upper limit of 5.5%, of which the hospital total amount reached 723.529 billion yuan, the total amount of primary western medicine clinics reached 196.582 billion yuan, the total dental outpatient clinics totaled 61.628 billion yuan, and the total total Chinese medicine outpatient clinics reached 38.464 billion yuan.

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Shi Chongliang said that taking into account factors such as the increase in basic wages next year, salary increases for the military, public education, and economic development, general premium income is expected to increase. Coupled with supplementary premium income and the public budget's injection of 60 billion health insurance funds, it is optimistically estimated that there will be 2 to 3 months of safety reserves by the end of next year, and it is estimated that there will be no need to adjust health insurance premium rates.

However, Teng Xihua, spokesperson of the Supervisory and Protective Alliance, is worried that medical representatives often ask for huge amounts of money with just "a few words" in meetings. When faced with opposition, they resort to emotional blackmail by using medical staff to leave and medical care collapse. Consumer representatives are unable to refute, resulting in the negotiation of the total amount being reduced to a formality. He calls for the Legislative Yuan to follow the example of the Legislative Yuan and live broadcast the entire meeting.

As for the outside world's concerns that health insurance will become a "go-for-moment" and hope to make it public through live broadcast, Shi Chongliang said that the annual health insurance total negotiation involves a lot of preparatory work, and it cannot be discussed only at the meeting on the same day, otherwise there will be big problems in the efficiency of the discussion. The total consultation meeting will also follow the procedures, and the agenda will be disclosed 7 to 9 days before the meeting, and the meeting minutes and speeches will be made public 10 days after the meeting.

Shi Chongliang said that in addition to publishing the meeting information on a public website, all audio and video files will also be retained. Whether it will be made public immediately through live broadcast in the future, he will further discuss with members of the National Health Insurance Commission and others to confirm whether there are any other problems. If not, "maybe we can plan in this direction."