Reconstruction of Medical Aid System under the Dilemma of Poverty Caused by Illness

Abstract

As the last line of defense in the medical security system, medical assistance should focus on the rural people in poverty as well as the marginalized people in poverty, playing an important role in preventing "poverty due to illness". As time goes by, poor people caused by illness have become the mainstream of medical assistance, gradually gaining the government attention. At present, the medical aid for the poor due to illness faces the following dilemmas: the lack of unified medical aid standards, the failure of government functions, and the difference in the regional collection of medical aid funds. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up the establishment of a unified medical aid system, improve the government's functions, and enhance the bottom-up support of medical aid combined with social forces, so as to increase the aid scale of those in poverty due to illness.