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New cooperative medical scheme decreased financial burden but expanded the gap of income-related inequity: evidence from three provinces in rural China

BACKGROUND: Subsidizing healthcare costs through insurance schemes is crucial to overcome financial barriers to health care and to avoid high medical expenditures for patients in China. The health insurance could decrease financial risk by less out-of-pocket (OOP) payment, but not promise the protec...

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Autores principales: Ma, Jingdong, Xu, Juan, Zhang, Zhiguo, Wang, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0361-5