Did the rural health insurance introduction reduce urban-rural disparities in Health Care Utilization in China?

This thesis will analyze urban-rural disparities in health care utilization in China and further try to find out whether NCMS can partially reduce this kind of disparity. Our finding is that there is no significant difference in inpatient utilization. While we find that the excess urban use of outpatient and preventative service do exist and insurance especially NCMS can partially explain the reducing urban-rural disparities in outpatient use. And the other insurance (exclude NCMS) can reduce the urban-rural disparity in preventative utilization.