Providing long-term insurance for patients

The doctor will assess the patient's condition and decide when to prescribe and dispense appropriate medication for the patient.

This is information that is welcomed by many people, because those who have to go for monthly check-ups will see how meaningful this is.

An anonymous patient said: “I have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol… When I go to the hospital for health insurance, in the first few months I often have my blood pressure measured, blood tests done, electrocardiograms measured… But in the following months, I mainly receive medicine. But because there are so many patients, I have to line up to get a number from the morning, sometimes it’s my turn in the afternoon, which is very tiring…”.

This is a common situation for many people who go to health insurance clinics. Many people say that there is no reason why when they go to the clinic, the doctor just asks a few questions, then opens the computer to look at the medicine and prescribes the same medicine as before but they have to come regularly.

Extending the time to dispense medicine will also reduce the load in many hospitals, simply because each examination session will reduce by half, or even two-thirds, the number of people waiting for examination.

It is worth mentioning that the above proposal was supposed to be piloted in some hospitals in Hanoi from the beginning of October this year. The hospitals will pilot for 6 months, after which the Ministry of Health will evaluate, summarize and include it in the Circular amending and supplementing the Circular regulating the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs and biological products in outpatient treatment in an appropriate manner. However, the hospitals are still waiting for new decisions and instructions from the Ministry of Health, so they have not been able to pilot.

After all, patients have the right to insurance benefits, including health insurance, because of their own financial contributions.

Therefore, insurance policies, in addition to ensuring that funds are not exploited, need to aim at the benefit of patients. Finding ways to make it easier for patients to receive benefits (medication) is something that needs to be considered, because the pain of going to health insurance clinics has been mentioned a lot in the press. Extending the time for dispensing medicine from 1 month to 3 months when chronic diseases have been treated stably is something that should be implemented as soon as possible.

What is not to worry about the effectiveness of the treatment is: the duration of the prescription depends on the decision of the treating physician. The doctor himself with the new regulation of extending the prescription date will have the final say, in accordance with the examination and treatment process, further enhancing the responsibility of the treating physician.

Health insurance is one of the best policies of our country. This policy must be more and more widely covered, reaching all classes of people. Therefore, we need to make it more necessary for people, including reducing unnecessary time for medical examination and waiting.

Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/cap-thuoc-bao-hiem-dai-ngay-cho-nguoi-benh.html