04461nam 22005535 450 991025335140332120200703163316.0981-10-1777-810.1007/978-981-10-1777-3(CKB)3710000000870148(DE-He213)978-981-10-1777-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4694495(EXLCZ)99371000000087014820160921d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Effects of Social Health Insurance Reform on People’s Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China The Mediating Role of the Institutional Arrangement /by Kai Liu1st ed. 2016.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (XXII, 184 p. 10 illus.) 981-10-1776-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Revisiting the social health insurance reform in China -- A new institutionalist approach of healthcare reform -- Effects of social health insurance participation on hospitalized patients’ out-of-pocket expenditures -- Why social health insurance became a care-seeking behavior booster? -- The purchasing mechanism: A game among purchaser, patient, and doctor -- A call for a single payer model?.This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China. Embracing a new institutionalist approach, it develops two analytical perspectives: determination, which identifies the mechanisms of social health insurance, and strategic interaction, which explores the interaction among social health insurance agencies, healthcare providers, patients, and institutions. It reveals the poor performance of social health insurance in decreasing out-of-pocket health expenditures caused by a trade-off between the reimbursement, behavior management, and purchasing mechanisms of social health insurance programs. Further, it finds that the inequitable allocation of healthcare resources and patients’ concerns regarding the benefits offset the strategies used by social health insurance agencies to manage care-seeking behavior. It also discovers that the complex interactions between insurance agencies, doctors, patients and a larger disenabling institutional surrounding restricts the purchasing efficiency of social health insurance. This book is characterized by its unique synthesis of the role of the institutional arrangement of social health insurance in China, the interaction between the stakeholders in health sectors, and of the relationship between healthcare institutions, actors, and policy outcomes. Providing a comprehensive overview, it enables scholars and graduate students to understand the ongoing process of social health insurance reform as well as the dynamics of health cost inflation in China. It also benefits policymakers by recommending a single-payer model based on an evidence-based investigation.Social workWelfare economicsPolitical economyMedical laws and legislationSocial Workhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X21000Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W31020International Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912140Medical Lawhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/R16005Social work.Welfare economics.Political economy.Medical laws and legislation.Social Work.Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.International Political Economy.Medical Law.361.3Liu Kaiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut499903BOOK9910253351403321The Effects of Social Health Insurance Reform on People’s Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China2519196UNINA