Social Risk Management Options for Health Care in Rural China
Disease has been one of the top reasons accounting for impoverishment in rural China.Government subsidizes health care by establishing health care insurance.This paper is an empirical investigation to study the effectiveness of the price subsidies in reducing the financial burden caused by health care in rural China and estimate the fiscal cost of various reimbursement arrangements,using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS).We find that the reimbursement for inpatient care has little effect on reducing the financial burden and increasing the possibility to seek care.Subsidizing outpatient care is a more effective policy,especially for the very poor.
medical insurance government subsides policy efect
Jin Feng
School of Economics, Fudan University
国内会议
武汉
英文
294-312
2007-11-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）