BACKGROUND China has one of the world's largest health insurance systems, composed of government-run basic health insurance and commercial health insurance. The basic health insurance has undergone system-wide reform in recent years. Meanwhile, there is also significant development in the commercial health insurance sector. A phone call survey was conducted in three major cities in China in Jul...

OBJECTIVES This article aims to introduce, compare and analyze the design and development of Critical Illness Insurance systems in different parts of China under different social and economic conditions, to explain their characteristics and similarities. It may provide references to other countries, especially developing countries, to solve the problem of high medical costs. METHODS According...

Data resource basics: The National Health Information Database (NHID) is a public database on health care utilization, health screening, socio-demographic variables, and mortality for the whole population of South Korea, formed by the National Health Insurance Service. The population included in the data is over 50 million, and the participation rate in the health screening programs was 74.8% i...

insurance in this country. True, we have a great quantity of voluntary health insurance, but quantity and effectiveness are not synonymous. By dichotomizing the challenge and allowing only the alternative of sound medical practice, which preserves the physician-patient relationship, or socialism, Dr. Page permits himself to conclude that, " . . . the only practicable scheme that will relieve pe...

Mark V. Pauly has outlined a new proposal to reduce the number of uninsured that would:                   that could be easily modified in response to lessons learned from this new approach.     -     -    with flexible, refundable tax credits or " coupons, " redeemable for insurance premiums or a reduction in taxe...

BACKGROUND Health inequity is an important issue all around the world. The Chinese basic medical security system comprises three major insurance schemes, namely the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI), and the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS). Little research has been conducted to look into the disparity in payments among the h...

THE AMENDMENTS TO THE Social Security .1ct passed in 1967 (Public Law 90-248) made several changes in the old-age, survivors, disability, hospital, and supplementary medical insurance system.’ Some of these changes affected significantly the actuarial status of the system. The principles used to determine tile financing stability of the program were not altered, however. This article discusses ...