The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was implemented in 2003 in response to the poor state of health care in rural China. This study offers a contribution to improve the NCMS design, particularly as to regional policy development, reimbursement arrangements, the efficiency of public investment, and improvements of rural infrastructure.

Dan Liu is currently Research Fellow at the Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Heidelberg (Germany). She studied at Sichuan Agricultural University (China) and completed her PhD at the University of Bonn (Germany). Her research interest lies in the area of development economics, with a focus on health domain, including health care demand, health financing, health risk management, and the impact evaluation of policy. In recent years, she has extended her studies related to health economics, ranging from the economic evaluation of health technology to health intervention programs.

Contents: Rural Health Insurance Scheme – Impact Evaluation – Consumer Choice – Reimbursement Package Design and Simulation.