城镇职工退休人员缴纳医疗保险费的可行性及其相关问题探讨——社会保障学者专题讨论综述

2016年初有政府官员提出要建立合理分担、可持续的医保筹资机制,合理强化医保个人缴费责任,研究实行职工医保退休人员缴费政策。部分社会保障学者在微信平台上进行了"退休人员缴纳医疗保险费是否缓解医疗基金支付压力的良方"专题讨论。讨论从退休人员缴纳医保费问题的可行性开始,逐渐深入到医疗控费、公立医院改革、政府角色定位和长期护理保险等医疗领域重难点问题。     

存在道德风险的医院等级选择与最优公共医疗保险合同

通过构造一个医疗服务系统的均衡模型,分析了医院等级、居民道德风险与最优公共医疗保险合同之间的关系。研究表明只存在公共医疗保险体系时,如果政府部门之间缺乏协调机制,各自为政,中国的公共医疗保险支付方式将不能实现社会最优并消除道德风险;公共医疗保险合同可能引起社会福利的损失或引致道德风险。政府应该完善医院评价系统,对不同医院的水平给予准确的评级,特别是要建立起政府各部门之间的协调机制;理顺医疗服务价格体系;鼓励更多市场参与主体进入医疗保险领域,建立合理的疾病风险分担机制。     

医保制度改革：从城镇保障到城乡统筹——医疗保障“马鞍山模式”研究

安徽省马鞍山市医疗保险制度改革,一直以其创新性和样本性被各级政府、媒体及公众广为关注,被称为“医疗保险马鞍山模式”。本文通过对马鞍山医保制度改革从城镇保障发展到城乡统筹过程的调查,介绍该市医疗保险制度的发展历程,总结、分析统筹城乡医保制度的主要内容、特点及成效,探究存在问题及对策,以期为研究中国当前的医疗保险制度改革提供参考,为广大中西部地区中小型城市的医疗保险工作提供借鉴。     

中国城镇居民医疗保险和新型农村合作医疗衔接路径探讨——基于湖北省武汉市的实证分析

中国城镇职工医疗保险、新型农村合作医疗和城镇居民医疗保险的建立标志着全民医保体系的确立,但是基本医疗卫生服务仍然表现出明显的城乡二元化特征。湖北省武汉市作为中部经济发展水平较高的大城市,在城市化和人口流动加快的背景下,迫切需要实现城乡医疗卫生资源的整合和基本医疗保险制度的衔接。首先实现城镇居民医疗保险和新农合衔接,进而探索城乡居民医疗保险和城镇职工医疗保险衔接,分两步走实现城乡三大医疗保险制度衔接。     

长期医疗护理保险居民参保意愿研究——来自青岛市的调查

青岛市于2012年7月推出长期医疗护理保险制度,到目前为止,制度运行虽然已经初见成效,但广大居民的认同和支持也是影响制度可持续发展的重要因素。通过对青岛居民参加长期医疗护理保险制度意愿的调查,并对回收的数据运用Logit模型进行分析后发现,在其他变量保持不变的情况下,年龄、教育程度、月收入、子女数量、对自我健康状况评估、对长期医疗护理保险的了解程度的差异等因素都对居民的参保意愿有显著影响,而性别、婚姻状况以及对政府的信任程度的差异对居民的参保意愿的影响并不显著。鉴于此,政府应该加强宣传,提高人们对于失能的风险意识和对护理保险的认同感;同时,努力提高居民收入水平,增强居民缴费能力。     

Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase Patterns

Given the aging population and high cost of long-term care, many Americans are concerned about financing long-term care services. Despite this concern, private long-term care insurance policy sales have experienced slow growth. On average only about 7 percent of the population aged 65 and older has long-term care insurance, but this percentage varies greatly across the states. In this study we test hypothesized relationships between purchase of long-term care insurance and various explanatory factors. We provide evidence that state Medicaid nursing home expenditure levels and the relative sizes of the elderly population and the nursing home population are significant explanatory factors of purchase rates. We find no evidence that public–private partnership regulation, the quality of available facilities, or agent marketing controls affect purchase. Findings of the study are useful to insurers, legislators, regulators, and others involved in the public policy debate about financing long-term care.     

日本构建“地域综合照护体系”政策理念的提出及其制度化

在财政恶化、少子老龄化、家庭看护功能弱化及雇佣的非正式化背景下,为建设能够提供高质高效服务的社会养老保障体制,基于连续性照护为目标的社区居家服务的照护理念,日本政府提出了以构建"地域综合照护体系"为政策理念的社会养老保障制度改革。通过对社会保障制度相关法律的改革,使构筑"地域综合照护体系"政策理念得以制度化。目前,各地方政府及公共团体在日本厚生劳动省的推动下依据《护理保险法》及本地特点,正在从充实强化护理保险服务、强化与医疗的合作、推进护理预防、确保生活支援服务、完善居住环境等方面推进"区域综合照护体系"的构筑。     

中国长期护理保险财政负担能力研究

本文通过测算城乡居民和城镇职工长期护理保险需求,构建医疗保险精算模型,对中国长期护理保险财政负担能力展开研究。结果发现:依托城乡居民医疗保险建立的长期护理保险会增加财政支出,但是支出规模在可控范围内;依托城镇职工医疗保险建立的长期护理保险会威胁职工医疗保险统筹基金的安全,因而不可持续,但是该问题可以通过改革职工医疗保险个人账户来解决;中国长期护理保险应该采用“个人缴费+医疗保险基金补助+财政补助”的模式,且个人缴费最高不超过15%;中国长期护理保险财政负担水平总体较低,财政有能力维持长期护理保险的运行。对此,我国应尽快正式建立全国性的长期护理保险制度和财政对长期护理保险的投入机制。     

城镇职工基本医疗保险制度抚养比研究

城镇职工基本医疗保险的"制度抚养比"比"系统老龄化"更能反映缴费人口的真实负担。文章借鉴"人口抚养比"概念分析了城镇职工基本医疗保险的"制度抚养比",发现,当前我国中部地区职工医疗保险缴费人口真实负担最重,西部地区居中,东部地区负担最轻。未来,我国医疗保险改革方向是提高医疗保障的范围和水平,同时将覆盖面扩展至农民工的难度不断加大,通过降低职工医疗保险系统老龄化和老年人人均医疗消费支出来降低制度抚养比的效果不明显。为降低制度抚养比,应抓住当前职工医疗保障的范围和水平正在不断提高这一历史时机,对退休老人实行分类终生缴费:养老金低于政府规定的最低缴费养老金的退休老人,由政府按照最低缴费养老金的2%进行代缴;养老金水平高于最低缴费养老金的退休老人,由个人缴费。     

我国开征不动产税与增强地方政府公共服务能力的思考

在物质生活基本得到满足的情况下．老百姓对医疗、教育、社会保障、公共安全以及环境保护等公共产品和公共服务的需求越来越突出，对地方政府的目标要求也不再是发展经济这一单一目标，而是更加强调其公共服务的能力。地方政府的公共服务能力在很大程度上取决于其收入能力。本文将探讨不动产税改革将如何在增强地方政府公共服务能力中发挥作用，并针对开征不动产税过程可能遇到的难点问题，提出相关对策建议。     

医疗保障城乡“一体化”制度创新探索——“湛江模式”的成功与不足

“湛江模式”的创新要点是以“政府购买”方式引入商业机构参与城乡医疗社会保障建设,其成功之处在于政府以宽广的视野与多样化手段进行宏观资源配置,找到了将“外部性”因素进行“内部化”处理的途径,在机制设计中做到了多方共赢。“湛江模式”的不足之处是保障依然较低,机制能否长久良性运行有待时间检验,需要通过引入竞争机制,培育多元市...     

城镇居民医疗保险制度的运行及改革

各级政府从2007年开始进行城镇居民医疗保险制度的试点,期望以此来解决城镇困难群体的就医问题。文章首先以我国东部地区某市的数据分析了老年城镇居民医疗保险制度运行,筹资额与所花费医疗费用的比例低,按照制度设计的原则,政府不对制度运行补贴,则报销比例低,影响人们的参保意愿。第二部分,国际上大多数实行医疗保险制度的国家为被保险者家属提供医疗保险待遇。从以上两部分的分析来看,城镇居民医疗保险制度未来的发展方向：第一,与城镇职工基本医疗保险制度逐步融合起来,以便分散风险;第二,加强对公共卫生和社区医疗服务的投入。结论是：如果没有遏制医疗费用上涨的有效手段,医疗保险制度对解决城镇困难群体的就医问题作用不大。     

Opting Out of Public Insurance: Is It Socially Acceptable?

The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The market of social services is often characterized by market failures, like informational asymmetries, externalities, distributional problems, which all justify public intervention. But the quality of services provided by public authorities or by private insurers in the context of health insurance is different and could be observable. The public reimbursement of health care is often conditional on rules, like the choice of the physician or the hospital, that induce a disutility of using social insurance instead of private insurance. An alternative solution to a complete privatization is to allow some individuals to opt out. We can imagine that the government allows and even in some cases favors part of the population leaving the public health insurance system. We analyze the situations where the opting out is welfare improving. We then study the optimal policy depending on the characteristics of the economy considering a Rawlsian criterion.     

Longevity Risk Management in Singapore's National Pension System

Although annuities are a theoretically appealing way to manage longevity risk, in the real world relatively few consumers purchase them at retirement. To counteract the possibility of retirees outliving their assets, Singapore's Central Provident Fund, a national defined contribution pension scheme, has recently mandated annuitization of workers’ retirement assets. More significantly, the government has entered the insurance market as a public‐sector provider for such annuities. This article evaluates the money's worth of life annuities and discusses the impact of the government mandate and its role as an annuity provider on the insurance market.     

试析医疗卫生事业发展的特殊矛盾和我国医改的路径选择

市场经济条件下医疗卫生事业发展面临五大特殊矛盾。现行医疗卫生体制要解决的首要问题是体制、机制创新问题。公立医院改革和医疗保险体制改革相结合,建立以公益性医院为主题的医疗保险职能和公共医疗服务职能相结合的制度统一、全民覆盖、统筹城乡的新型公共医疗服务保险制度,构建政事分开、管办分开、医保基金管用分开的医疗卫生管理体制,是化解现行医药卫生体制蕴藏的内在矛盾,破解我国医改难题的可行的路径选择。     

日本社区综合护理体系研究

应对2025年人口老龄化高峰期的到来,日本政府为了方便老年人在自己住惯了的社区接受医疗护理服务,对原有的护理保险制度和医疗保险制度进行了改革,加强了医疗与护理的联系。在护理保险制度中引进定期巡回随时应对型上门护理和复合型护理服务两项新型护理形式;在医疗保险制度改革中通过病床的分化与合作,促进居家医疗;住宅政策中创建附带服务功能的老年住宅。过去的医疗护理政策主要考虑护理供给方的立场,积极建设护理设施,而此次的社区综合护理体系考虑更多的是老年人的立场,将医疗、护理、预防、居住、生活支援有机结合起来方便老年人接受社区综合护理。在市町村主导下,日本正在构建自助、互助、共助、公助相结合的,由全社会共同支撑的社区综合护理体系。     

Understanding the motivations of long-term care insurance owners: the importance of retirement planning

This article is based on two recent reports by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) that illuminate the reasons why individuals purchase private long-term care insurance in both the group and individual markets. This information suggests that a younger and more diverse group of individuals are becoming increasingly interested in private long-term care insurance and that workplace education linkage the purchase of long-term care insurance to retirement planning may promote coverage.     

The Health Insurance Reform Debate

This article provides an overview of the U.S. health care reform debate and legislation, with a focus on health insurance. Following a synopsis of the main problems that confront U.S. health care and insurance, it outlines the health care reform bills in the U.S. House and Senate as of early December 2009, including the key provisions for expanding and regulating health insurance, and projections of the proposals' costs, funding, and impact on the number of people with insurance. The article then discusses (1) the potential effects of the mandate that individuals have health insurance in conjunction with proposed premium subsidies and health insurance underwriting and rating restrictions, (2) the proposed creation of a public health insurance plan and/or nonprofit cooperatives, and (3) provisions that would modify permissible grounds for health policy rescission and repeal the limited antitrust exemption for health and medical liability insurance. It concludes by contrasting the reform bills with market-oriented proposals and with brief perspective on future developments.     

Time inconsistency as a rationale for public unemployment insurance

A role for public unemployment insurance is developed based on the inability of the government to commit to a future rate of unemployment. This is illustrated using a model in which a minimum wage policy combined with unemployment insurance is welfare-improving. Unemployment insurance could be decentralized to the private sector if the government could commit to a minimum wage. However, if not, a government that acts in the interest of the workers will have an incentive to increase the minimum wage to exploit private insurers. In the absence of commitment, an equilibrium with private unemployment insurance will not exist.     

印美医疗保障体系私有化比较

美国和印度都是医疗保障体系高度私有化的国家,对我国未来医疗保障适度私有化之路具有借鉴意义。通过梳理和比较,本文得出印美医疗保障体系私有化的3个异同点:(1)政府责任定位:印度政府的目标是建立初级保健水平的全民医疗,美国政府则给予弱势群体较好的医疗保障;(2)私营医疗保障体系结构:美国的非营利、营利和公立医疗机构三足鼎立,印度的营利机构占有重要地位,而非营利机构比重甚至低于公立医院;(3)公私合作意愿:印度医疗服务提供方面公私合作意愿强,美国意愿相对较弱。