Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 262 Medical Insurance
"Free Medical Care!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the doctors fell silent.

Naturally, they had already heard about Fan Zheng's idea of ​​free medical treatment in the court hall, which was a grand occasion that doctors dreamed of, so they couldn't help but look at Fan Zheng passionately.

"Brother Fan, think twice!" Su Dun frowned.

He learned about court disputes in detail through his father, so he naturally knew that it was impossible to implement free medical care at the moment.

"Actually, doctors have already tried free medical treatment. Do you remember the Luoyang epidemic?" Fan Zheng asked.

All the doctors nodded. The Luoyang epidemic was the most glorious milestone for the doctors. The doctors took over the entire Luoyang and treated smallpox for free. It only took three months to quell the epidemic. It can be said that the effect is remarkable.

"The great epidemic in Luoyang is a special time, and the consequences are also extremely serious." Su Dun said with a wry smile.

The three-month period of free medical treatment for the great epidemic in Luoyang has directly dragged down the finances of the Luoyang government. If free medical care is implemented throughout the Song Dynasty, the finances of the Song Dynasty may not be able to support it for three months.

Yang Jie also nodded and said, "Free medical care may be realized one day, but with the current situation of Song Dynasty, it is impossible to realize it at all."

Yang Jie knew very well that doctors needed an astronomical figure every day just for medicinal materials. Even if doctors didn't make money, no one could bear the cost of medicine alone.

"Free compulsory education is currently out of reach, and neither is free healthcare."

Qian Yi also spoke out against it. If Fan Zheng enforced free medical care, it would definitely drag doctors into the abyss. It is not a medical workshop that can appease doctors.

A group of doctors echoed.

However, Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Fan understands what you mean. It can't be realized at present. It's not that we are indifferent. Free compulsory education needs to be divided into three steps. Doctors need to advance step by step if they want to realize free medical care. It's empty talk."

Qian Yi proudly said: "Now physicians are building hospitals in all cities in the world. I believe it will not be long before they will spread to all cities in the world. At that time, physicians may be one step ahead of public schools."

After the crazy expansion of the Chinese Medicine Hospital and Tai Hospital, in two years, the main cities of the Song Dynasty have established hospitals, and they are now expanding to a number of counties. According to this scale, it will not be long before the hospital will completely cover all of the Song Dynasty. All the cities.

And the compulsory education in the whole city is only in Kaifeng City. If you want to cover the cities of Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not be achieved in another ten years.

Su Dun suddenly interjected: "Since the plague is treated for free, diseases similar to the plague should also be treated for free. Su believes that tuberculosis and leprosy can be treated for free at the same time. We are taking the first step in free medical treatment. "

"Consumption and leprosy?"

The doctors breathed a sigh of relief.

These two diseases are very contagious, and the symptoms are very similar to the plague. Physicians have long planned to implement them.

Now that the strength of doctors has been greatly increased, only these two types of infectious diseases can be afforded by doctors.

Fan Zheng nodded. Tuberculosis is the tuberculosis of later generations, which is extremely difficult to deal with. The same is true for leprosy. If the treatment is free, the harm of these two diseases can be minimized.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Physicians can take the first step, and there will be a second and third step in the future. Yang believes that with the development of physicians, more and more diseases will be included in the free medical treatment of physicians. As long as With the continuous development of doctors, free medical care will be realized step by step." Fan Zhenglang said.

All the doctors were excited. If that day came, what a grand event it would be for the doctors.

Qian Yi heaved a sigh of relief, Fan Zheng did not rush forward, and chose to promote free medical care step by step, so that he could rest assured.

"There is another important reason why Fan insists on implementing free medical care step by step, and that is that the crisis of doctors has emerged." Fan Zheng suddenly said solemnly.

"The crisis of doctors?"

A group of doctors looked at each other in blank dismay, doctors are in full swing now, how could there be a crisis.

"You are all good doctors in the world. I don't know if you have discovered that with the great prosperity of doctors, our medical skills have become more and more sophisticated, and more and more diseases can be cured, but the cost of seeing a doctor has been increasing. There are constant complaints." Fan Zheng looked at the doctors and asked.

"This phenomenon does exist, and many patients complain about it."

All the doctors nodded and said, they have all experienced this kind of thing, but they didn't take it to heart.

Yang Jie nodded helplessly and said: "There is no way to do this. Now, in order to increase the cure rate as much as possible, repeated disinfection, sterilization of medical equipment, and the promotion of surgery are required, and the cost of medical treatment has increased sharply."

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "It is an irreversible fact that medical costs have increased significantly. Doctors need to support their families, and doctors need to invest more funds in researching medical skills. All of these require money, although doctors can get a lot of money from medicine. Income, but only a small part of the source is the patient's medical expenses."

Nowadays, doctors use income from alcohol, toilet water, tea, etc. to maintain the expansion of the doctor's family, but in fact, the hospital does not earn much money from medical expenses.

The doctors are helpless. Before the reform of doctors, the cost of medical treatment for patients is indeed not high, but many diseases cannot be cured at all.

But now doctors have advanced medical skills, and many diseases can be cured. The cost of seeing a doctor has increased significantly, but the medicine can cure the disease.

"This is just the beginning. Even with the further development of doctors' medical skills in the future, more advanced medical skills will be used, and medical expenses will further increase. At that time, the reputation of me and other doctors will plummet. , You don’t want your life for money, unscrupulous doctors and so on.” Fan Zheng said solemnly.

Before that, doctors had a very good reputation, masters in Xinglin, hanging pots to help the world, the government and the public even had the title of good doctors if they were not good friends, but now doctors have made great progress in their medical skills, but their reputations are mixed.

The faces of all the doctors were shocked, not to mention the future, they have heard a lot of such things now.

However, in fact, although doctors today charge more expensive fees, the cure rate of diseases is much higher than that of a few years ago, but patients don't care about you. good.

"In the long run, the word-of-mouth of doctors will decline sharply, and the conflict between doctors and patients will increase significantly. At that time, doctors will face a huge crisis." Fan Zheng said without hesitation.

Qian Yi sighed helplessly, spread his hands and said, "If you want to solve this problem, you can only get free medical treatment, but this is impossible."

Unless the people are not allowed to spend money, it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

However, Fan Zheng changed his words and said, "Of course free medical care cannot be realized, but doctors are not without a transitional method?"

"The method of transition?"

Qian Yi couldn't help being taken aback, he didn't expect that Fan Zheng hadn't given up on free medical care.

"How to make the transition?" Yang Jie didn't understand.

"Medical insurance!" Fan Zheng paused every word.

(End of this chapter)