What can we learn from China’s health insurance reform to improve the horizontal equity of healthcare financing?

Abstract Background Universal health coverage is a challenge to horizontal equity in healthcare financing. Since 1998, China has extended its healthcare insurance schemes, and individuals with equal incomes but different attributes such as social status, profession, geographic access to health care,...

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Main Authors: Fan Yang, Mingsheng Chen, Lei Si
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-12-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01793-3