Promote provincial-level coordination of basic medical insurance

On November 27th, the State Council executive meeting deployed the promotion of provincial-level pooling of basic medical insurance, marking a crucial step for China's medical insurance system to move from "local decentralization" to "provincial-level centralized management".

The core of provincial coordination lies in breaking down regional barriers and reconstructing the underlying logic of medical insurance governance. As one of the important measures to improve the national medical insurance system, provincial pooling is conducive to better leveraging the advantages of mutual assistance in insurance and enhancing the guarantee capacity of the medical insurance system. Promoting provincial-level pooling of medical insurance is not only a technical adjustment of the system, but also a solid protection of the fair right to "medical care for the sick".