每到岁末年初,湖北省荆门市第二人民医院都会活跃着一支名为“医疗费用清欠小组”的队伍。这个由院长任组长、各科室护士长、财务科长及法律顾问为成员的小组,面对年复一年翻不完的旧账、堵不住的新账压力,不得不上山下乡、走村穿巷,扮演“职业讨债者”角色。很显然,医疗欠费并非这一家医院的“难言之痛”。那么,医疗欠费的成因是什么,又到底有无破题良策呢? Every year-end and early-new year, Jingmen Second People’s Hospital of Hubei Province will be active with a team called “Medical Expense Debt Arbitration Team.” The team, headed by the president, members of the nurses’ chiefs, chief financial officers and legal counsels, faced the pressure of new accounts that could not be dealt with year after year, Take the village to wear the lane, play “professional debt collector ” role. Obviously, medical arrears are not the “unspeakable pain” of this hospital. So, what is the cause of medical arrears, but also in the end there is no good solution?