The Impact of Catastrophic Medical Insurance in China: A five-year patient-level panel study

• Main Authors: Min Yu (Author), Jieming Zhong (Author), Ruying Hu (Author), Xiangyu Chen (Author), Chunmei Wang (Author), Kaixu Xie (Author), Merrell Guzman (Author), Xiaotong Gui (Author), Sandra Tian-Jiao Kong (Author), Tingting Qu (Author), Karen Eggleston (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In an effort to provide greater financial protection from the risk of large medical expenditures, China has gradually added catastrophic medical insurance (CMI) to the various basic insurance schemes. Tongxiang, a rural county in Zhejiang province, China, has had CMI since 2000 for their...