Refection on sustainable development of the new rural cooperative medical service system from demanders' side——report of the pilot rural cooperative medical service system in Yulong County of Yunnan Province (part two)

In this paper, some issues such as fund-raising and benefit-making, information transmission and concerns of disadvan-taged groups have been analyzed from demanders' side by investigating the pilot fields of the new rural cooperative medical service system in Yulong county of Yunnan province. Several problems in the pilot fields have been unveiled. Firstly, vertical equity has not been well realized, which leads to relatively low participation of cooperative medical service system by disadvantaged groups. Secondly, rich groups took up higher proportion of medical reimbursement than poverty-stricken groups. Thirdly, disadvantaged groups have not been comprehensively concerned in carrying out the new cooperative medical service system. Fourthly, the level of fund-raising was not sustainable because of low economic capacity of poverty-stricken population.