合作医疗制度为改变我国缺医少药，保护农民身体健康，促进经济发展发挥了巨大的作用。由于农村经济体制改革和社会主义市场经济的建立，这种在计划经济条件产生的福利性合作医疗制度已经不能适应农民日益增长的医疗需求，不能适应按照社会主义市场经济运行的医药卫生事业的发 The cooperative medical system has played a huge role in changing our country’s lack of medical care, protecting farmers’ health and promoting economic development. As a result of the reform of the rural economic system and the establishment of a socialist market economy, this type of welfare-based cooperative medical system created under the conditions of the planned economy has been unable to adapt to the increasing medical needs of the peasants and cannot adapt to the development of the medical and health undertakings operating in accordance with the socialist market economy.