发挥中医药优势,是我国建立基本医疗保障制度的有效途径。纯西医模式行不通分析我国现行的医疗保障体系,如果继续走以西医为主的道路,面临的最大问题是:我们没有能力支付日益增大的医疗卫生成本。我国的卫生费用既不可能达到美国1.3万亿美元的水平,也不可能达到其占 GDP13%的水平。如按同等比例计算,2001年 Making full use of advantages of traditional Chinese medicine is an effective way for China to establish a basic medical security system. Pure Western model does not work Analysis of the current medical security system in our country, if we continue to follow the road of Western medicine, the biggest problem facing is that we do not have the ability to pay the growing medical and health costs. It is impossible for our health costs to reach the level of 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars in the United States and to reach its level of 13% of GDP. If calculated on an equal basis, 2001