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...

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...