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Table 6 Horizontal inequity and reranking of Chinese urban health care financing system in 2007

From: What can we learn from China’s health insurance reform to improve the horizontal equity of healthcare financing?

Decile

Equivalent household expenditure

General taxes

Social insurance contributions

Private insurance premiums

OOP

Total

1—poorest

3.01%

3.37%

1.33%

3.19%

2.35%

2.14%

2

4.41%

4.74%

2.52%

2.49%

3.55%

3.25%

3

5.49%

5.63%

4.49%

3.72%

5.28%

5.01%

4

6.65%

6.77%

5.85%

3.46%

6.22%

6.01%

5

7.81%

7.81%

8.05%

8.72%

7.66%

7.81%

6

9.17%

9.33%

9.44%

13.85%

8.58%

9.08%

7

10.87%

10.83%

10.86%

14.08%

11.28%

11.29%

8

12.82%

12.92%

14.67%

19.71%

11.77%

12.94%

9

15.39%

15.34%

17.60%

11.21%

15.02%

15.53%

10—richest

24.38%

23.26%

25.19%

19.57%

28.29%

26.94%

total

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

g

 

0.004308

0.053441

0.009519

0.133745

0.201012

V

 

—0.000057

0.004064

0.000137

0.008465

0.014091

H

 

0.000020

0.000795

0.000299

0.002805

0.003848

R

 

0.000000

0.000320

0.000703

0.009125

0.012168

RE

 

—0.000077

0.002949

—0.000865

—0.003464

—0.001925

RE / RE

 

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

V / RE

 

74.16%

137.80%

—15.82%

—244.38%

—731.83%

H / RE

 

—25.83%

26.94%

—34.56%

—80.96%

—199.87%

R / RE

 

0.00%

10.85%

—81.26%

—263.42%

—631.96%

  1. OOP out-of-pocket payment
  2. g Payments as fraction of income
  3. V Vertical effect
  4. H Horizontal inequity
  5. R Reranking
  6. RE Redistributive effect