中国健康保障制度的改革正进入到一个重要的历史发展时期。不久前召开的国务院城市职工医疗保障制度改革工作会议,确定了个人医疗账户结合社会统筹的新模式,而于1996年12月召开的全国卫生工作大会则明确提出以合作医疗为主要形式的农村健康保障制度的发展方向。然而,相对于城市健康保障制度的改革而言,中国农村的健康保障制度之路到底应该怎么走,还缺乏强有力的政策指导和可以推广、行之有效的操作经验。因此,卫生部在8 The reform of China’s health protection system is entering an important period of historical development. The recently held meeting of the reform of the medical insurance system for urban workers of the State Council of the State Council established a new model for the integration of individual medical accounts with social pooling. The National Health Work Conference held in December 1996 clearly proposed rural health based on cooperative medical treatment. The direction of development of the safeguard system. However, compared to the reform of the urban health protection system, the road to the health care system in rural China should go in the end. There is also a lack of strong policy guidance and can promote and effective operating experience. Therefore, the Ministry of Health at 8