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- Title
China's new health plan targets vulnerable.
- Authors
Cui Weiyuan
- Abstract
The article discusses health-care costs and reform in China. It relates the story of migrant worker Dou Huhai who was fired after seeking compensation for a workplace accident that resulted in the loss of his fingers, an otherwise avoidable outcome if he had had health insurance. The Chinese Medical Insurance Association says that a health-reform plan called the Urban Employee Basic Health Insurance Scheme (URBMI) is beginning to provide needed health-care coverage to migrant workers. Physician Lei Haichao, Director of Policy research at China's Ministry of Health, is cited regarding the number of citizens covered by the government's health insurance plans.
- Subjects
CHINA; HEALTH care reform policy; HEALTH insurance; MIGRANT labor; MEDICAL economics; MEDICAL care financing; CHINA. Wei sheng bu; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, Vol 88, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0042-9686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2471/BLT.10.010110