Does the new cooperative medical scheme reduce inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in rural China?

Table 6 Mean positive payment gap in catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) before and after reimbursement in 2009 and 2012

Threshold	Before reimbursement (A) (%)		After reimbursement (B) (%)		Reduction by NCMS A–B
Threshold	2009	2012	2009	2012	2009	2012
20 %	28.50	30.27	25.09	23.66	3.41	6.60
30 %	27.14	25.44	21.19	19.84	5.95	5.59
40 %	26.61	22.72	21.78	16.65	4.83	6.07
50 %	25.70	24.01	17.73	16.14	7.97	7.87
60 %	22.10	19.58	15.64	14.17	6.45	5.41

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