Analysis of Chinese Rural Health Insurance System

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.080How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Rural China, Managerial economics, Health insurance, NCMS, Healthy economics

Abstract

This paper investigates the early origin of Chinese health insurance and factors of starting the appearance of NCMS (New Rural Cooperative Scheme). It also expects to find the problems of present NCMS and discusses the measures which can be taken to tackle them. Those main topics are concluded after obtaining information from publications and documents of policy. Among them, several main references based on database with a huge amount of information is emphasized. The paper identifies the lack of original rural health insurance in China, especially the period before the reform of China. In addition, two necessary factors that make the health insurance develop are concluded as the local setting of some experimental units and the maintenance of cooperative system. Moreover, problems like poor publicization, cumbersome procedures and information asymmetric are pointed out. Compared with the medical system in Canada, suggestions on narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor as well as the increasing types of illnesses that could be reimbursed are given. Generally speaking, the rural health insurance in past several decades have overcome lots of barriers but its future development is still waiting for proper adjustment.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yan Su
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Analysis of Chinese Rural Health Insurance System
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 409
EP  - 412
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.080
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.080
ID  - Su2021
ER  -