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Table 3 Health insurance coverage for the Urban Population (%), 1998 and 2003

From: Urban health insurance reform and coverage in China using data from National Health Services Surveys in 1998 and 2003

 

1998

2003

 

Percent

L95%CI

U95%CI

Percent

L95%CI

U95%CI

Government–run health insurance schemes

BHIS

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30.4

29.8

31.0

GIS

16.0

15.2

16.8

4.0

3.1

4.8

LIS

28.7

28.1

29.3

4.6

3.7

5.4

MHIS

44.7

44.1

45.3

39.0

38.3

39.7

Other type of non-commercial insurance schemes

Collective schemes

2.7

1.9

3.6

6.6

5.8

7.5

Other

5.1

4.3

6.0

4.0

3.1

4.8

Sub total

7.8

7.1

8.7

10.6

9.8

11.5

Commercial insurance schemes

3.3

2.5

4.1

5.6

4.6

6.3

No insurance cover

44.1

43.5

44.8

44.8

44.2

45.4

  1. * BHIS not existent at the time of the 1998 survey.