Hui Yin

TL;DR: Despite over 95% of coverage, the NCMS has failed to prevent catastrophic health expenditure and medical impoverishment and an upgrade of benefit packages is needed, and effective cost control mechanisms on the provider side needs to be considered.

TL;DR: Inequality in health services amongst NCD patients in China remains largely determined by patient financial capability, and a comprehensive social policy that encompasses a more progressive taxation package and redistribution of social capital as well as pro-poor welfare is needed.

TL;DR: The original poverty-promoting policies has not reached the maximum point of convergence with China’s current demand for health, so special health needs, age, and household capacity to pay should be comprehensively considered while strengthening the connection between the disease insurance scheme with supplementary insurance.

TL;DR: Accessibility to primary healthcare and doctor-patient trust stimulate patients to choose the primary health institutions, which should improve general approach to hypertension management and enhance the ability of providing basic public health services.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors employed the nationally representative longitudinal data from 2012 to 2018 based on the China Family Panel Studies to assess the determinants of primary health care (PHC) service preference among the residents and the trend in PHC service preference over time in China.