医疗保障水平是医疗保障研究领域的关键变量,但目前学术界对医疗保障水平界定不准确。医疗保障水平应为城镇医疗保险、新型农村合作医疗以及医疗救助支出总额占国内生产总值的百分比。我国的医疗保障水平与经济发展水平相适应,但与发达国家相比仍有差距。 The level of medical security is a key variable in the field of medical security research. However, the current academic definition of medical security is inaccurate. The level of medical security should be the percentage of total urban medical insurance, new rural cooperative medical care and medical aid expenditures in the GDP. The level of medical security in our country is compatible with the level of economic development, but there is still a gap compared with developed countries.