Recently, the National Medical Insurance Bureau announced the Interim Measures for the Administration of Medication in Basic Medical Insurance. Among them, several kinds of drugs that are not included in the Drug List are defined, including: drugs that mainly play a nourishing role; Drugs containing national precious and endangered wild animals and plants; Health care drugs; Preventive vaccines and contraceptives; Drugs that mainly enhance sexual function, treat alopecia, lose weight, beautify, quit smoking and drinking, and so on. The measures shall come into force as of September 1, 22. ?

The most discussed thing is that preventive vaccines are not included in medical insurance, because in people's consciousness, vaccines seem to be free, so why can't they suddenly be expensive?

first of all, we should understand? Preventive vaccine? What is it? Preventive vaccine is relative to? Therapeutic vaccine? Defined, it plays an immune preventive role and prevents the occurrence of diseases. The vaccination targets are healthy groups and can be applied to susceptible people, mainly such as hepatitis B vaccine, DTP vaccine and measles vaccine.

Traditional vaccines provide lasting protection against diseases, while therapeutic medicine is used to fight existing diseases. In April 21, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first therapeutic vaccine? Provenge of Dendreon. Provenge(sipuleucel-T) has shown in clinical trials that it can prolong the life of a certain type of male patients with metastatic prostate cancer by about 4 months. This vaccine can stimulate an immune response against a specific antigen or recognition molecule present in most prostate cancer cells.

In China, what do vaccines generally refer to? Preventive vaccine? .

For example, when many parents vaccinate their children, they will choose to spend money or import. Some vaccines are monopolized by giants at present, and they are destined to be expensive after high profits. For the time being, the state does not have so much energy and strength to obtain bargaining space. In these cases, the state can't take over the past endlessly, right?

therefore, the country has decided on a cost-effective one by considering the basic health needs of the whole society, vaccine costs and other factors. The first category? And what remains to be studied? The second category? . Among them, the first-class seedling production enterprises are mainly state-owned enterprises, and the second-class seedling production enterprises are mostly private enterprises that produce or import products, with relatively high technical level and relatively expensive prices.