Heterogeneous Impacts of Basic Social Health Insurance on Medical Expenditure: Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme

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 wit...

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Autores principales: Fang, Conglong, He, Chaofei, Rozelle, Scott, Shi, Qinghua, Sun, Jiayin, Yu, Ning
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6955686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31684191
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040131
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author Fang, Conglong
He, Chaofei
Rozelle, Scott
Shi, Qinghua
Sun, Jiayin
Yu, Ning
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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.
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spelling pubmed-69556862020-01-23 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 Healthcare (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2019-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6955686/ /pubmed/31684191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040131 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Basic Social Health Insurance on Medical Expenditure: Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6955686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31684191
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040131
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