On March 5, the Second Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress opened. In the government's work tasks in 2019, the pharmaceutical industry will focus on ensuring basic medical and health services, deepening the comprehensive reform of public hospitals, and developing community elderly care services. , Supporting the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine, strengthening the supervision of vaccines, and cultivating biomedical industry clusters.
Aspects are as follows:
1. Work review in 2018
Deepen the reform of medical care, medical insurance, and pharmaceutical linkage. Steadily promote hierarchical diagnosis and treatment;
Increase the basic medical insurance subsidy standard for residents and the reimbursement ratio of serious illness insurance;
Accelerate the reform of new drug review and approval, and 17 anticancer drugs have been greatly reduced in price and included in the national medical insurance catalog;
Strengthen food and drug safety supervision, and strictly investigate and deal with the Changchun Changsheng Company and other problematic vaccine cases.
2. Government tasks in 2019
1. The current 16% tax rate in manufacturing and other industries will be reduced to 13%
Inclusive tax cuts and structural tax cuts will be implemented simultaneously, focusing on reducing the tax burden on manufacturing and small and micro enterprises. Deepen the value-added tax reform, reduce the current 16% tax rate in manufacturing and other industries to 13%, keep the 6% tax rate unchanged, but adopt supporting measures such as increasing tax deductions for production and consumer services to ensure that all The tax burden of the industry will only be reduced but not increased, and we will continue to move forward in the direction of promoting the combination of three tax rates and two tax rates, and simplifying the tax system.
2. Implement the reform of "separation of licenses"
This year, the reform of "separation of licenses" will be implemented for all business-related business licensing matters, so that companies can more easily obtain business licenses and operate normally as soon as possible, and resolutely overcome the phenomenon of "access but not allowed to operate". Promote online approval and services, speed up the realization of one-stop processing and remote handling, so that more matters can be handled without meeting in person, and those that really need to be handled on the spot must "accept at one window and complete within a limited time" and "go once at most".
3. Deepen the R&D and application of big data and artificial intelligence
Promote the accelerated development of emerging industries. Deepen research and development applications such as big data and artificial intelligence, cultivate new-generation information technology, high-end equipment, biomedicine, new energy vehicles, new materials and other emerging industrial clusters, and expand the digital economy. Adhere to inclusive and prudent supervision, support the development of new formats and models, and promote the healthy growth of the platform economy and sharing economy. Accelerate the promotion of "Internet +" in various industries and fields. Continue to promote network speed increase and fee reduction. Carry out urban gigabit broadband home demonstrations, transform and upgrade distance education and telemedicine networks, and promote the expansion and upgrading of mobile network base stations, so that users can truly experience faster and more stable network speeds.
4. Improve the punitive compensation system for intellectual property infringement
Increase support for basic research and applied basic research, strengthen original innovation, and strengthen key core technology research. Improve the innovation mechanism for the integration of production, education and research with enterprises as the main body. Expand international innovation cooperation. Comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, improve the punitive compensation system for intellectual property rights infringement, and promote the creation, transformation and application of inventions. Scientific and technological innovation is essentially a human creative activity. It is necessary to fully respect and trust scientific researchers, and give innovation teams and leading talents greater control over human resources and financial resources and decision-making power over technical routes.
5. Vigorously develop community elderly care services
It is necessary to vigorously develop the elderly care service industry, especially the community elderly care service industry, and provide tax and fee reductions, financial support, and preferential prices for water, electricity, and heat to institutions that provide services such as day care, rehabilitation care, and meal assistance in the community. Supporting construction of community elderly care service facilities, reform and improvement of the policy of combining medical care and elderly care, and expanding the pilot program of the long-term care insurance system will allow the elderly to have a happy old age and future generations to have a promising future.
6. Guarantee basic medical and health services
Continue to improve the protection level of basic medical insurance and critical illness insurance for urban and rural residents, and increase the per capita financial subsidy for medical insurance by 30 yuan, half of which will be used for critical illness insurance. Reduce and unify the deductible line for serious illness insurance, and increase the reimbursement rate from 50% to 60%, further reducing the medical burden of patients with serious illness and poor people. Strengthen the prevention and control of major diseases. There are tens of millions of families suffering from cancer in our country. We must implement cancer prevention and control actions, promote preventive screening, early diagnosis and early treatment, and scientific research, and focus on alleviating the pain points of people's livelihood.
7. Do a good job in the prevention and treatment of common chronic diseases, and include outpatient medicines such as hypertension and diabetes in medical insurance reimbursement
Grasp the implementation and improvement of the policy of direct settlement for medical treatment across provinces, so that patients who seek medical treatment in different places can see a doctor with a card and pay in real time in all designated hospitals as soon as possible, so as to effectively facilitate the floating population and the elderly who have moved with them.
8. Deepen the comprehensive reform of public hospitals and promote social running of hospitals
Accelerate the establishment of a telemedicine service system, strengthen the training of grassroots medical personnel, and improve the quality of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment and family doctor contract services. Adhere to the focus on prevention, and use all the newly added financial subsidies for basic public health services in villages and communities, and must benefit the grassroots.
9. Strengthen maternal and child health services
10. Support the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine
11. Strengthen the whole process of vaccine supervision
Drugs and vaccines are vital to life and safety, and supervision must be strengthened throughout the entire process. Violators must be punished severely, and those who neglect their duties must be severely investigated and dealt with, so as to resolutely guard the defense line of people's lives and health.
12. Improve the social security system and policies
Promote the construction of a multi-level old-age security system. Implement the basic medical insurance continuation policy. Appropriately raise standards such as urban and rural subsistence allowances and special assistance, and strengthen protection for children in need. Intensify efforts to relieve poverty-stricken workers in cities and towns. Improve the level of disability prevention and rehabilitation services.