Effects of basic medical insurance integration on subjective wellbeing of residents in China: empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Enhancing the wellbeing of residents through universal health coverage (UHC) is a long-term policy goal for China. In 2016, China integrated the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) and the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) into the Urban and Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) to address the problem of fragmentation.

Objective

The objective of this study was to investigate whether the integration of basic medical insurance had an impact on the subjective wellbeing of Chinese residents.

Methods

Using the China Household Finance Survey data of 2015 and 2019, we empirically estimated the influence of the integration of basic medical insurance on Chinese residents through the difference-in-difference method based on propensit

SUBMITTER: Na X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10467426 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature