Abstract:
The healthcare cost rapid inflation has become one of worldwide difficulties. “The medical treatment is hard to access and hard to afford” has long been a chronic illness for Chinese healthcare services. Hygienic policy research and hygienic economics generally consider that effective control of healthcare cost needs can be realized by combining providers stimulation mechanism adjustment with demanders control using economic means. However, Fujian Province provided another possibility that the government used an administrative means to control the healthcare cost rapid inflation since 2005, which controlled the abnormal trend of healthcare cost inflation. By analyzing the experience of Fujian Province, this paper pointed out that the government’s political support, the hygienic department’s policy decision, and the utmost use and rational allocation of various policy tools are important for the control. Deep research into the Fujian experience has theoretical and practical significance.