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Table 5 Financing arrangements

From: Subsidized health insurance coverage of people in the informal sector and vulnerable population groups: trends in institutional design in Asia

Country

Level of subsidization

Transfer mechanism of subsidy

Calculation logic of subsidy

Financing source of subsidy

Revenue to expenditure ratio (for all subsidized members unless specified, data year)

Cambodia:

HEFs

Full [41]

Individual-based [29]

n/a

Donor and government funds [29]

n/a

SUBO

Full

Individual-based [57]

n/a

Central government revenues [57]

n/a

China:

Estimations of future health care expenditure per subsidized member [66]

Total annual government subsidy for each subsidized member should not be less than a certain amount, e.g. 120 CNY per year per NRCMS subsidized member (2010) [71]

 

URBMI

Partial: from 41 % to 85 % in central and western provinces; from 23 to 75 % in eastern provinces (2010) a [72]

Individual-based [72]

Provinces/counties revenues [31]

139 % (average, 2011) [73]

NRCMS

Partial: 80 % (2012) [31]

Individual-based [72]

Provinces/counties revenues [31]

123 % (average, 2011) [73]

MFA

Covers remaining co-contribution to result in full subsidization [31]

Individual-based [31]

Central and local government revenues [46]

n/a

India:

RSBY

Full, yet small registration fee [24]

Based on the number of families [24]

Insurance companies bidding process [74]

Central government and state revenues [12]

263 % (2009-10)[24]

Yeshasvini

Partial: 40 % (2009) [12]

Individual-based [24]

Estimations of future health care expenditure per subsidized member [75]

State revenues [24]

133 % (2009-10) [24]

Rajiv Aarogyasri

Full [12]

Based on the number of families [24]

Insurance companies bidding process [24]

State revenues [24]

83 % (2009-10)[24]

Kalaignar

Full [12]

Based on the number of families [24]

Insurance companies bidding process [24]

State revenues [24]

102 % (2009) [24]

Vajpayee Arogyasri

Full [12]

Based on the number of families [24]

Insurance companies bidding process [24]

State revenues [24]

n/a

Indonesia

Full [61]

Individual-based [33]

Set by government based on expenditures of previous years (6500 Rp. monthly in 2010) [33]

Central government revenues [33]

112 % (2010) [33]

Mongolia

Full [49]

Individual-based

Contribution amount of self-employed is taken as reference (set by government (670 MNT per person per month as of 2012) [13, 34]

Central government revenues [13]

30 % (2009) [13]

Philippines

Full [35]

Individual-based

Based on contributions levels of contributing members [58]

Central government revenues [35]

30 % (2010) [76]

Thailand

Full [108]

Individual-based

Estimations of future health care expenditure per UCS member [77]

Central government revenues [77]

100 % (2010) [77]

Vietnam

Full

Partial: from 30 % to 70 % [15, 54]

Individual-based [15]

Based on contributions levels of contributing members (4.5 % of minimum salary) [15]

Central government revenues and social security funds [15]

210 % (poor, 2010)

101 % (near-poor, 2010)

199 % (average, 2010) [15]

  1. a Calculations from authors based on data of indicated reference