China’s Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme: a type of health insurance or a type of health cooperative?

@article{Wang2016ChinasRC,
  title={China’s Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme: a type of health insurance or a type of health cooperative?},
  author={Fang Wang and Yuan Liang},
  journal={Primary Health Care Research \& Development},
  year={2016},
  volume={18},
  pages={194 - 199}
}
  • F. Wang, Yuan Liang
  • Published 19 May 2016
  • Political Science, Medicine
  • Primary Health Care Research & Development
The Cooperative Medical Scheme (CMS) was popular in rural China in the 1960s and 1970s, having garnered praise from the World Bank and World Health Organization as an unprecedented example of a successful health care model in a low-income developing country. However, the CMS almost collapsed in the 1980s. Based on its historical origins and main activities, we think the CMS functioned as a health cooperative rather than a health insurance scheme. Perhaps, however, the importance to the CMS of… 
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