In less than a decade, China transformed its inadequate, unjust health care system in order to provide basic universal health coverage (UHC) for its people. What forces made it possible for China to achieve this? What kind of transformation took place? What are the impacts of these policy...

This paper aims at evaluating the impact of 1998 Chinese health care reform on out-of-pocket expenditure and on saving. Existing evidence on the results achieved by this reform in terms of reduction of out-of-pocket medical expenditures is still mixed and contradictory, and very little is known...

Systemic interdependence and institutional change in the health system of post-Mao China -- Contested policy : the two attempts to rebuild the CMS -- The enactment and implementation of the NRCMS system -- Designing the NRCMS in a local context -- Operating the NRCMS in a context of misfit...