The Law of the People ’s Republic of China on Basic Medical Hygiene and Health Promotion (hereinafter referred to as the “Health and Health Law”) has been officially implemented since June 1, 2020. This is the first basic and comprehensive law in the field of health and wellness in my country.

The "Health and Health Law" is comprehensive and extensive, covering all aspects of the medical and health field, and will inevitably have a major and far-reaching impact on my country's pharmaceutical production, pharmaceutical circulation, medical services, health care and other industries.

The "Health and Fitness Law" mentions "retirement" in 6 places:

Article 25 The state develops health care for the elderly. The State Council and the people ’s governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall include the health management of the elderly and the prevention of common diseases into basic public health services.

Article 28 The state develops mental health undertakings and builds and improves the mental health service system. The state takes measures to strengthen the mental health service system and talent team building, promote the effective connection of mental health education, psychological assessment, psychological counseling and psychotherapy services, establish a psychological assistance hotline for public welfare services, and strengthen minors and disabled people And mental health services for key populations such as the elderly.

Article 36: People's governments at all levels shall take measures to support medical and health institutions and pension institutions, child welfare institutions, and community organizations to establish cooperative mechanisms to provide safe and convenient medical and health services for the elderly and orphans and disabled children.

Article 56. The state strengthens the construction of rural medical and health teams, establishes a county-to-country and rural professional development mechanism, and improves the multi-channel subsidy mechanism and pension policy for service income of rural medical and health personnel.

Article 74. The state establishes a nutritional status monitoring system, implements nutrition intervention plans for economically underdeveloped regions and key populations, carries out nutrition improvement actions for minors and elderly people, advocates healthy eating habits, and reduces the risk of diseases caused by unhealthy diets.

Article 76: The State shall formulate and implement health work plans for minors, women, the elderly, the disabled, etc., and strengthen health services for key populations.

High-end medical, doctor group, Internet hospital may usher in development opportunities

The "Health and Health Law" adheres to the government's leadership, and has made legal regulations and system construction in terms of basic protection, strong grassroots, and government investment. It strictly limits the responsibilities of public hospitals to "basic medical" and leaves the high-end medical market to With social capital, this will provide a broad development space for social capital.

In addition, the "Health and Health Law" strictly controls the budget management and drug procurement of medical institutions. The majority of public hospital income will be obtained through an insurance system with medical insurance as the main body. Whether it is universal medical insurance or a commercial insurance system, the core claims are Fee control, as a difference appropriation unit, a large part of the income of most domestic hospitals comes from external cooperation and special diagnosis and treatment (special services, special medicines, special treatments), as is the personal income of medical staff.

In this case, the "Health and Health Law" stipulates: "The state promotes the implementation of family doctor contracting services in primary health care institutions, establishes a family doctor service team, and signs agreements with residents." The "Health and Health Law" supports telemedicine and Internet medical care, and the doctors' group is expected to use information technology to follow the trend and build up.

In addition, due to the comprehensive adjustment of the medical service price system, the salary and environment of private medical institutions have a comparative advantage, which may lead to a change in the redeployment of medical talent resources. As a new representative, the doctor group can also reap the talent dividends. .

Cooperation between social capital and government public hospitals will face repositioning and adjustment

In social medical practice, it is not uncommon for social capital to establish new campuses through joint ventures with government hospitals or to establish branches through cooperative projects.

Before the promulgation of the "Health and Health Law", the national social medical policy allowed social forces to organize non-profit medical institutions through special needs management, public construction, private operation, private office assistance, etc., and it was not explicitly prohibited that social capital cooperate with public medical institutions to organize profit-making mechanism.

After the implementation of the “Double Prohibitions” provision of the “Health and Health Law”, it is emphasized whether the medical and health institutions organized by the government should adhere to the public welfare policy background and whether the way of collecting hospital management fees by providing “hospital management services” conforms to the national medical reform policy and The law of industry development, whether there is a risk or possibility of being recognized as a "disguised dividend", needs to be further clarified by subsequent policy legislation. Restructuring a "basic" non-profit government hospital into a for-profit hospital will undoubtedly be difficult to implement.

The new law helps the development of the Chinese medicine industry

The "Health and Health Law" clearly stipulates: "The state will vigorously develop the cause of traditional Chinese medicine, adhere to the combination of equal emphasis on traditional and western medicine, inheritance and innovation, and play the unique role of traditional Chinese medicine in medical and health care."

In addition, according to the relevant provisions of the "Health and Health Law", the national basic public health service items should be determined by the competent Chinese medicine department, and the payment scope of the basic medical insurance fund should also be heard by the competent Chinese medicine department.

In recent years, the development of the Chinese medicine industry has exposed many problems, such as the need to improve the governance system, weak talent construction, uneven quality of Chinese medicines, insufficient inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, and insufficient innovation. The introduction of the "Health and Health Law" undoubtedly develops the Chinese medicine industry. A strong shot was taken. It is foreseeable that the Chinese medicine industry, which has continuously received policy blessings, has broad investment prospects.