The Analysis of Performance and Reason of Government and Market Incompatible Function in the Process of Essential Medicine Supply / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

Objective: To analyze the compatibility and reason of government and market’s function of essential medicine’s supply security system. Methods: Based on the institutional economics, synergistic effect of relevant policy was analyzed. Results: There was incompatible performance among the policy goals of essential medicine; the biding policy was harmful for competition of supply stage and weakened the role of price signal; the supply policy mitigated the responsibility of pharmaceutical manufacturer and made the transaction activity complecated. Conclusion: The key to essential medicine’s reform should optimize the combination of government and market’s function to generate the synergistic effect of essential medical policy measurement.