按照中央部署,新型农村合作医疗制度(以下简称“新农合”)将在今年从试点转入全面推进阶段,目标要覆盖全国80％的县(市、区)。“合作医疗”并不是一个新鲜词汇。这项始于20世纪五六十年代的农村医疗保障制度曾令无数中国农民受益。合作医疗,再加上赤脚医生和县、乡、村三级医疗卫生保健网,号称我国农 According to the central deployment, the new rural cooperative medical system (hereinafter referred to as “NCMS”) will move from pilot phase to full-scale promotion this year with the goal of covering 80% of the counties (cities and districts) across the country. “Cooperative Medical” is not a new term. This rural medical security system, which started in the 1950s and 1960s, has benefited countless Chinese peasants. Cooperative medical care, coupled with barefoot doctors and county, township and village medical health care network, known as the Chinese farmers