Effects of Social Health Insurance Reform on People’s Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in China

Prof. Liu is Assistant Professor of School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China. He develops his expertise in health policy, social policy in China, and comparative social security system. He visited University of California, Berkeley to study health policy and health economics in 2013. He won the Fulbright Scholarship and visited Harvard University to conduct a comparative study of catastrophic health spending in 2014-2015.

• Revisiting the social health insurance reform in China.- A new institutionalist approach of healthcare reform.- Effects of social health insurance participation on hospitalized patients’ out-of-pocket expenditures.- Why social health insurance became a care-seeking behavior booster?.- The purchasing mechanism: A game among purchaser, patient, and doctor.- A call for a single payer model?.