The Funding Guarantee Mechanism of Citizens’ Right to Health in Public Health Emergencies

Dan Wu ()
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Dan Wu: China University of Political Science and Law, Civil, Commercial, and Economic Law School

A chapter in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics (BAFE 2022), 2023, pp 348-368 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The COVID-19 is a public health emergency of international concern, which has had a serious impact on the health and life safety of all mankind. How to insure the medical costs of patients with COVID-19 has become an urgent issue. Under China’s current practice, the medical insurance fund and public financial subsidies jointly share responsibility for the medical costs of ordinary people infected with COVID-19. The work injury insurance fund and the employers pay the medical costs of front-line medical personnel and urban and rural community workers. These practices are a timely response to people’s COVID-19 medical needs. But these fragmented, temporary, and policy-based measures have exposed the problems of unclear responsibilities between public finance and social insurance, and the institutional gaps in the country’s response to public health emergencies. In order to improve the funding guarantee mechanism of citizens’ right to health in public health emergencies, we must clarify the relationship between medical insurance and public health, identify work injuries, divide the responsibility of central and local governments rationally, and establish a social compensation system.

Keywords: Public health emergency; Health right; Funding guarantee mechanism; Social compensation system; Social security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2991/978-2-494069-99-2_27

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