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Table 2 Decomposition of Redistributive Effect of Health Care Financing System

From: Equity in health financing of Guangxi after China’s universal health coverage: evidence based on health expenditure comparison in rural Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region from 2009 to 2013

Quintiles of per capita consumption, gross

Per capita consumption, gross

Tax

Social insurance contributions

Out of pocket money

Total payments

2009

2013

2009

2013

2009

2013

2009

2013

2009

2013

Lowest quintile

4.4

6.5

5.0

6.4

18.9

17.4

8.7

9.7

11.3

11.5

2

9.1

11.7

9.7

11.6

18.5

17.7

13.3

18.0

14.1

16.1

3

14.6

16.7

14.6

17.0

20.6

20.1

14.5

20.8

16.7

19.5

4

23.8

22.9

23.4

22.6

21.5

21.0

20.8

24.0

21.8

22.5

Highest quintile

48.1

42.2

47.4

42.4

20.5

23.9

42.7

27.4

36.1

30.5

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

Payments as fraction of Income (g)

1.0000

1.0000

0.0992

0.0697

0.1241

0.0872

0.1241

0.0872

0.3474

0.2441

Kakwani index assuming horizontal equity (Ke)

0.0000

0.0000

−0.0135

0.0013

−0.3416

−0.1988

−0.1067

−0.1706

−0.1000

−0.1359

Vertical effect (V)

0.4371

0.3535

−0.0015

0.0001

−0.0484

−0.0190

−0.0151

−0.0163

−0.0532

−0.0439

Horizontal inequality (H)

−0.0008

−0.0011

0.0001

0.0000

0.0107

0.0090

0.0024

0.0018

0.0519

0.0115

Reranking (R)

0.0000

0.0000

−0.0001

0.0000

−0.0157

−0.0038

−0.0055

0.0019

−0.0482

−0.0057

Total redistributive effect (RE = V - H - R)

0.4379

0.3546

−0.0015

0.0000

−0.0434

−0.0242

−0.0120

−0.0199

−0.0569

−0.0497

V / RE

0.9981

0.9968

0.9619

1.9321

1.1160

0.7857

1.2637

0.8175

0.9354

0.8835

H / RE

−0.0019

−0.0032

−0.0886

0.8764

−0.2472

−0.3704

−0.2002

−0.0882

−0.9113

−0.2311

R / RE

0.0000

0.0000

0.0505

0.0557

0.3632

0.1561

0.4638

−0.0943

0.8467

0.1146