In 2008, India launched Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a government subsidized health insurance scheme for the poor that covers secondary hospital care for Below Poverty Line (BPL) households. Designed to improve access to healthcare and reduce the financial burden of healthcare expenses, RSBY currently covers 32 million households. The authors exploit the phased rollout of RSBY to estimate the impact of the scheme in its early days on hospitalization...
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2012/12/01
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工作文件
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94958
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2015/08/28
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Disclosed
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The impact of RSBY on hospital utilization and out-of-pocket health expenditure
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development