英语课讨论内容

Income for doctors, too high, too low, or just ok? What problems do the current policy have? And what are the possible ways to respond to these problems? Are they effective?

In United States, doctor is one of the most honorable and well-paid profession, for which being a doctor is an attractive and challenging choice for many college students. As far as our country is concerned, doctors’ income seems unequal to their deserved reward, at least for the rightful income. For young residency, their salary is usually less than 2000RMB, which is much less than other professional young university graduates, with being required long time and intensive work. To be a qualified doctor, they have received seven years or even more time of education and training and they had to pay higher tuition fee than many other majors. What’s worse, with wider and wider gap between doctors and patients, nowadays doctors suffer from more and more mental pressure. Compared with income of doctors in China, that of American doctors appears to be a little too high. Too expensive medical expenditure gives rise to extraordinary heavy economic burden, which troubles the government a lot. Besides, there are times doctors become the accomplice to shameful acts of medical insurance companies. As a sentence said, doctors should belong to middle class regardless the social property, too high or too low income for doctors both are abnormal.

Investigate NCMS in your area and report your investigation. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of NCMS.

Possible ways to overcome the deficiencies.

Strength of NCMS: Focus on inpatients services and catastrophic outpatients services to prevent the rural residents from being impoverished by catastrophic illness.

Central and local governments impose many taxes and fees on this system, and the NCMS is guided, organized and conducted by the governments. As for the guideline , broad guidelines are issued by the central governmental, provincial and county governments retain considerable discretion over the details.

V oluntary feature is adopted to overcome the public’s resistance of paying any money into a government-run insurance program.

Weakness of NCMS:Financial resources is limited. As a result of limited financing, the coverage for inpatient care and catastrophic outpatients care is typically shallow: deductibles are high, reimbursement ceilings are low, and coinsurance rates are high. Participants are still obligated to pay a lot of money out-of pocket, which leave health care beyond the reach of many poor households.

Participants are restricted to receive designed drugs and examinations, which may be not very appropriate or adequate to cure illnesses.