作为一种支持和帮助贫困人群获得基本卫生服务的制度,医疗救助是多层次医疗保障体系最后一道保护屏障,能增进弱势人群健康,提高其生存能力。发达国家都将医疗救助视为政府的职能,由政府提供资金,解决特定人群特别是弱势人群的基本医疗卫生服务需求,但是标准较低。 As a system to support and help poor people get access to basic health services, medical assistance is the last protective barrier of a multi-level medical security system that can improve the health of vulnerable people and improve their survivability. The developed countries regard medical assistance as the government’s function. The government provides funds to solve the basic medical and health service needs of certain groups of people, especially the vulnerable, but the standards are low.