(Reporter correspondent Tang Jihong Jiping reporter Cheng Shouqin) Recently, the "Regulations on New Rural Cooperative Medical Care in Jiangsu Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") were reviewed and passed at the 21st meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of Jiangsu Province and will be It will be officially implemented on June 1 this year. It is reported that this is China's first local regulations for new rural cooperative medical care. Guo Xinghua, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Health, said that the formulation of local regulations for the new rural cooperative medical system will help establish a long-term mechanism for fund collection, management, and use, standardize the service behavior of fixed-point medical institutions, and strengthen the responsibilities of governments at all levels and related departments.

The "Regulations" stipulate that the health administrative department shall be responsible for the work of the New Rural Cooperatives. The unified funding standard for new rural cooperative medical centers shall not be less than 3% of the per capita net income of farmers in the previous year in the region, and shall be higher than the national minimum funding standard, in which the proportion of individual payment does not exceed 20% of the funding standard. Funding standards are generally adjusted every two years. The maximum payment limit must not be less than 8 times the per capita net income of farmers in the previous year in the region, and the maximum payment limit for major diseases and special diseases will be raised. Relevant experts pointed out that the establishment of a “reference frame” for the formulation of funding standards for the New Rural Cooperatives will enable the total amount of new rural cooperative funds to increase with the income of farmers, and the level of protection will also increase.

The "Regulations" also stipulates that the health administrative department shall accept complaints and reports of violations of the provisions of the "Regulations" and investigate and deal with them. For acts such as embezzlement and misappropriation of new rural cooperative funds, the departments of health, finance, auditing, etc. shall order them to recover, and the illegal gains shall be confiscated. The directly responsible persons in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be punished according to law; If a crime is committed, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

The "Regulations" make it clear that the representatives of the participants of the new rural cooperative medical cooperative enjoy the management and supervision power of the new rural cooperative medical system. In the New Rural Co-operative Surveillance Committee, the number of participants represents no less than one-third of the constituents, and they have the right to provide advice and suggestions on the work of the new rural cooperative medical system. In order to ensure that the medical insurance is "absolute," the "Regulations" stipulate two types of "special circumstances": Rural residents move out of their hometowns for reasons such as schooling, and are now returning to their places of residence. They have not participated in or stopped participating in other basics. In case of medical insurance, it is possible to participate in the new rural cooperative medical system in the area where the original household registration is located; in the new rural cooperative medical system, a special population such as infants born between the payment period to the next payment period, retired soldiers, rural residents who stop participating in other basic medical insurance, etc. , Can participate in the new rural cooperative of the year.