Non-evidence-based policy: how effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment?

Journal article

In recent years, many lower to middle income countries have looked to insurance as a means to protect their populations from medical impoverishment. In 2003, the Chinese government initiated the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS), a government-run voluntary insurance program for its rural population. The prevailing model of NCMS combines medical savings accounts with high-deductible catastrophic hospital insurance (MSA/Catastrophic). To assess the effectiveness of this approach in reducing...

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Authors: Yip, W; Hsiao, W

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Social science and medicine (1982)
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 201-209
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.066
• EISSN: 1873-5347
• ISSN: 0277-9536
• Language: English
• Keywords: Voluntary Programs; Humans; Insurance, Major Medical; National Health Programs; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; Health Expenditures; China; Rural Health Services; Medical Savings Accounts; Medical Indigency; Evidence-Based Practice; Models, Econometric; Insurance, Health; Health Policy