Who can price fixing of medical services kill?

An Example Medical Pedicure Procedure

The report according to Oriental morning paper [1] , office of insurance of medical services of health bureau of city price bureau, city, city was combined on August 5, 2009 release " mix about the standard adjust this city cure ability diagnosis and services kind medical services the price " announcement, nearly 1000 medical servicess begin to carry out highest price fixing since this month.

From the point of announcement content, to more than kinds of 940 medical services project established maximum price standard, covered service of diagnosis and services of all cure ability. At first view reports this, many people think this is plan of civil administration of a benefit really, the citizen sees a doctor expensive phenomenal hopeful gets alleviating. According to economics common sense, can reach only a conclusion: Continue as price fixing policy, if at the same time price fixing is carried out strictly really, the quality that medical services can drop ceaselessly. Additional an inference is as future aggravate of inflation of a paragraph of period, the rate that quality of medical services drops will be rapidder and rapidder.

Be combined by a variety of features and a kind of any products and service are become, include product standards, quality, amount, condition of delivery to wait, if adopt limitative value policy according to a certain feature, so the person that product or service are offerred can manage balance of fundamental income and expenses or normal operation necessarily with reducing other feature. Can infer, should press second undertake B exceeds convention to check limitation to cover 30 yuan in every (my individual to at present 30 yuan whether compensate for cost and superabundant, it is not quite clear to make the hospital is willing to provide this kind of service then, likely also far outclass offers cost, but this kind of circumstance won‘t last very long, rise as general price level, offer cost to be able to exceed this price fixing quickly) when, the tone when we can discover nurse young lady makes a patient very quickly heals beneficial is crude, impatient, the time that B transcends an examination will be shorter and shorter, likely also the number is increasing. Should press plan cost to cannot compensate for that is to say when total cost, short-term inside the equipment of the hospital cannot be adjusted, want to be able to compensate for only fluctuant cost, the hospital still is willing to offer this kind of diagnosis and services to serve, but long-term inside cannot compensate for when total cost, some hospitals may provide this kind of service with relevant equipment avoids or decreasing. The team that is a hospital if really ever since will be seniorer and seniorer, what low changes is every patient more disadvantageous, waste more time, also can make a few patients that if can get seasonable cure is met,survive cannot come down alive, so, is this kind of price fixing good news to the patient?

Often when we limit the normal effect of the price for the interest of common people, we can absorb the opportunity that experience teachs a lesson goodly once, but our memory after passing does not pass night, arrive to make same mistake the next time, when the action that governmental supervisor ability believes the value truly, do not go intervening at random of the market run? To this, I am very pessimistic.

[1] plum Dai , the person that nearly 1000 medical servicess violate price fixing since this month will suffer Shen Cheng punish severely, on August 6, 2009, oriental morning paper, http://sh.sina.com.cn/news/h/2009-08-06/0811115329.html.