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A theoretical investigation of the reformed public health insurance in urban china

With its transition to a market-oriented economy, China has gone through significant changes in health care delivery and financing systems in the last three decades. Since 1998, a new public health insurance program for urban employees, called Basic Medical Insurance Program (BMI), has been establis...

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Published in:Frontiers of economics in China 2009-03, Vol.4 (1), p.1-29
Main Authors: Jihong, DING, Minglai, ZHU
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