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Heterogeneous Impacts of Basic Social Health Insurance on Medical Expenditure : Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme Fang, Conglong; He, Chaofei; Rozelle, Scott; Shi, Qinghua; Sun, Jiayin; Yu, Ning

Abstract

This paper examines the effects of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on medical expenditure. Utilizing the quasi-random rollout of the NCMS for a difference-in-difference analysis, we find that the NCMS increased medical expenditure by 12.3%. Most significantly, the good-health group witnessed a 22.1% rise in medical expenditure, and the high-income group saw a rise of 20.6%. The effects, however, were not significant among the poor-health or low-income groups. The findings are suggestive of the need for more help for the very poor and less healthy.

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Title
Heterogeneous Impacts of Basic Social Health Insurance on Medical Expenditure : Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Creator
Fang, Conglong; He, Chaofei; Rozelle, Scott; Shi, Qinghua; Sun, Jiayin; Yu, Ning
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2019-11-03
Description
This paper examines the effects of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on medical expenditure. Utilizing the quasi-random rollout of the NCMS for a difference-in-difference analysis, we find that the NCMS increased medical expenditure by 12.3%. Most significantly, the good-health group witnessed a 22.1% rise in medical expenditure, and the high-income group saw a rise of 20.6%. The effects, however, were not significant among the poor-health or low-income groups. The findings are suggestive of the need for more help for the very poor and less healthy.
Subject
New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS); medical expenditure; health insurance; China
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2020-01-06
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0387502
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/73141
Affiliation
Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Statistics, Department of
Citation
Healthcare 7 (4): 131 (2019)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/healthcare7040131
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Other
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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