Medical Insurance and Targeted Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Poverty Vulnerability

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2014 to 2018, this paper explores the impact of the rate of family members joining the medical insurance on the vulnerability to poverty. Then it further analyzes the impact of the rate of family members joining the insurance on the poverty vulnerability of the families with different income levels. The results show that improving the rate of coverage can effectively reduce household vulnerability to poverty. However, this kind of effect has obvious differences among the households with different incomes; it is most significant among the low-income households, followed by middle and high-income households. When being suffered from catastrophic medical risks, improving the rate of coverage of the family members can significantly reduce the household vulnerability to poverty, but this effect on the households with middle and high-income is a little bit stronger than that on the households with low-income. As for the vulnerability to poverty calculated on the basis of different absolute poverty standards and relative poverty standards, this conclusion is still robust. Moreover, to improve the health conditions of family members is an important intermediary channel to reduce the vulnerability to poverty with the medical insurance.

Key words: medical insurance, vulnerability to poverty, targeted poverty alleviation

CLC Number:

F840.613

CHEN Ying, ZHAO Gui-qin. Medical Insurance and Targeted Poverty Alleviation: From the Perspective of Poverty Vulnerability[J]. Journal of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, 2022, 0(2): 59-73.

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