The large and growing uninsured population poses an alarming threat to the US health care system, and is a major target of the Obama health reform. This paper investigates analytically and empirically the degree to which the absence of health insurance in the US reflects the availability of the...

This paper uses multi-year, individual-level data to evalutate the effects of the current Chinese urban employee health insurance reform on equity in health care financing. It found that the new Urban Employee Basic Health Insurance Scheme financed by personal medical savings accounts (MSAs)...