New health care reform and equity in China's health care system

The equity in health care system is one of guaranteed conditions for every body's right.With China's rapid economic growth,the equity of the health care system continues to be challenged.China's government began a socalled health care reform,health care system reform,facing macro-situation and its own demand of health care system in 2009.From the aspect of fairness of health care system,the paper analysed the consideration on equity of health care financing,payment and medical service providers in the reform action program.The author believed that tax financing should be improved,public financing should be used in the social medical insurance(demandside) in order to promote the fairness level in health care financing and payment.The public hospitals play minority roles and show the commonweal of medical service providers,which reflects the equity in the reform action program and high attention on fairness by new health care reform.Some problems were raised lastly in the paper including consideration to both government dominance and market regulation,rural medical security,proper percentage of public funds in health care financing,and location and development of Chinese medicine in this reform.