China's Health System

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The country I choose is China.

Discussion: How redistributive is your country’s health care system? What are the roles of public and private insurance? What sources of tax revenue are used to finance public insurance programs and how progressive are they? How strongly are health outcomes related to socioeconomic status? Does the system systematically underserve any particular population sub-groups?

As described in the syllabus, the Notes assignment is to respond to the above questions with 1.5-2 pages of written text. Bullet points are acceptable, but everything should be written in complete sentences.

These Readings might help you:

• David Cutler. “Your Money or Your Life.” Chapters 9 and 10.

• *Chen, A., E. Oster, and H. Williams. Why is Infant Mortality in the US Higher than in Europe. Discussion paper, 2013. (Available here: http://brown.edu/research/projects/oster/sites/bro... les/uploads/imr.pdf)

• Mackenbach, Johan P., et al. "Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries." New England Journal of Medicine 358.23 (2008): 2468- 2481. (Available here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0707519)

• Makinen, Marty, et al. "Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: empirical data from eight developing countries and countries in transition."Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78.1 (2000): 55-65. (Available here: http://apps.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(1)55.pdf)

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How redistributive is China’s health care system?


In China, three of the main public insurance program, Namely UEBMI, URBMI and NCMS,
insure 95% of China's population. However, the affluent groups in the community receive most
the healthcare benefits and reimbursements. A report by NCIB aimed in evaluating the
magnitude of redistributive inequality found pro-rich horizontal equality in both 2008 and 2013
in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme.



However, according to a World Bank report, the life expectancy at birth in China is 76.3 years.
Incredibly higher than 64.6 years as it was in 1976. This shows increased accessible healthcare in
the country. The country is moving toward Universal Health Coverage following a failure in
distributive healthcare.
What are the roles of public and...


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