Reforming profit-seeking mechanism is the key to public hospital reform / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

The profit-seeking mechanism which has emerged as an unexpected result of a series of policy choices during the market-oriented healthcare reform is the root cause of almost all problems among the public hospi-tals, and hence the key to the public hospital reform.The mechanism is comprised by three components including the pressure mechanism to create the revenue, the enlargement mechanism to reimburse costs, and the linkage mecha-nism between employee income and hospital surplus.Therefore, a comprehensive policy package should be adopted to undertake these three aspects among which the linkage mechanism is the crucial one.