Private and public cross-subsidization: Financing Beijing's health-insurance reform

Health Policy

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-52

  Wu, Ming ^a,b   Xin, Ying ^b   Wang, Huihui ^c   Yu, Wei ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ownership; Chinese economics reform; Cross subsidization; Health insurance; Health care financing

Indexed keywords

CHINA; EMPLOYEE; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; REVIEW;

EID: 14844343118     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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