Fig. 1From: Managing the medical resources of a national insurance program: lessons based on China’s NCMSGovernment subsidies for NCMS. Data source: NCMS financing policy documents over the years. The detailed standards of central and local subsidies since 2010 are calculated from the related policy documents. Note that the standard of the central government’s subsidy to the eastern region and that of the local governments in this region are not provided because there is only the stipulation of “providing a subsidy according to a certain proportion” in financing documents, but no explicit stipulation concerning the central government’s subsidy to the farmer participants in the eastern regions over the yearBack to article page