National medical insurance bureau： the bottom line of returning to poverty due to illness will not happen. In 2022, 97.66 million people with difficulties will be funded to participate in insurance.

　　Cctv newsAt 10: 00 am on May 18th, the State Council Press Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Opening by Authorities", introducing the situation of "Implementing the Party’s 20 Major Decisions and Deploying Efforts to Promote the High-quality Development of Medical Insurance" and answering reporters’ questions.

　　Hu Jinglin, director of the National Health Insurance Bureau, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has led hundreds of millions of people to win the battle against poverty, which has historically solved the problem of absolute poverty that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years and created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that getting rid of poverty is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle. After winning the battle against poverty in an all-round way, the medical insurance department resolutely implemented the decision-making arrangements made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to effectively link the achievements of consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation with rural revitalization, continued to deepen the reform of the medical security system, steadily realized the basic medical care for low-income people in rural areas, and resolutely adhered to the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale due to illness.

　　First, ensure that the key population should be guaranteed. The central government has continuously increased subsidies for residents’ medical insurance, and medical assistance has subsidized the poor, the low-income people, the poverty-stricken people who have returned to poverty, and the poverty-stricken people who are easy to return to poverty and are included in the monitoring, ensuring that the rural low-income people have institutional guarantees for medical treatment. In 2022, a total of 97.66 million people with difficulties were funded to participate in insurance, and the participation rate of low-income people in rural areas was monitored to be stable at over 99%.

　　Second, strengthen the effectiveness of the triple system to reduce burdens. Triple system, mainly basic medical insurance, serious illness insurance and medical assistance. First, stabilize the level of hospitalization benefits of basic medical insurance and improve the outpatient mutual aid guarantee mechanism. The second is to improve the reimbursement level of residents with serious illness by inclusiveness, and accurately implement inclined payment for people with special difficulties. The third is to improve the medical insurance and assistance system for serious and serious diseases, and consolidate the function of supporting the bottom. According to monitoring, in 2022, the triple system benefited 145 million rural low-income people to seek medical treatment, helping to reduce the cost burden by 148.7 billion yuan.

　　Third, improve the long-term mechanism to prevent poverty due to illness. Guide all localities to do a good job in monitoring and early warning patients with high medical expenses, timely include qualified key monitoring personnel into the scope of medical assistance, and cooperate with relevant departments to implement comprehensive assistance. Since 2021, more than 7.4 million people have actively pushed early warning information. In addition, through the adjustment and normalization of medical insurance catalogue, the procurement of medicines and medical consumables is carried out, and the cost of medical treatment for low-income people in rural areas is jointly reduced.

　　In the next step, we will resolutely implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee in the State Council, and on the basis of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of "basic medical security", vigorously promote medical security to help the rural areas revitalize in an all-round way, mainly doing the following work:

　　First, promote the establishment of a diversified medical assistance system, improve the unified and standardized medical assistance system, and make overall plans to improve the level of assistance for seriously ill patients in difficult families.

　　The second is to improve the comprehensive assistance mechanism for patients with high expenses, and promote charitable organizations, commercial health insurance, medical mutual assistance and other social forces to participate in the rescue and protection, so as to give full play to the joint efforts of protection.

　　The third is to do a good job in consolidating and expanding the contact point construction of medical insurance poverty alleviation achievements, in-depth summing up local practical experience, and exploring and supporting the national rural revitalization key help counties to carry out medical insurance to help rural revitalization special rescue operations.