“以药养医”是指以卖药收益成为医院和医生的主要收入来源,通俗地讲,就是医院和医生主要靠卖药(注:其他还包括医疗器械等)赚钱来养活自己。这是源于1981年3月,为扭转卫生机构不善于经营核算的局面,卫生部下发了《医院经济管理暂行办法》和《关于加强卫生机构经济管理的意见》。于是,以“只给政策不给 ”Medicine for medicine “ refers to the main source of income for hospitals and doctors by selling proceeds of medicine. Generally speaking, hospitals and doctors rely mainly on selling medicine to make money for themselves. This is the result of March 1981, in order to reverse the situation that health institutions are not good at business accounting, the Ministry of Health issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of Hospital Economics and the Opinions on Strengthening the Economic Management of Health Institutions. So, to ”only to the policy does not give