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

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...

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Main Authors:	Conglong Fang, Chaofei He, Scott Rozelle, Qinghua Shi, Jiayin Sun, Ning Yu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-11-01
Series:	Healthcare
Subjects:	new cooperative medical scheme (ncms) medical expenditure health insurance china
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/7/4/131

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