Table 6 Mechanisms: Total hospitalization expenses, medical insurance applicability and medical institution choice
From: Inequity under equality: research on the benefits equity of Chinese basic medical insurance
Variable | URBMI | NRCMI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total hospitalization expenses | Medical institution choice | Medical insurance applicability | Total hospitalization expenses | Medical institution choice | Medical insurance applicability | |
Reference group: Poorest | ||||||
2nd | 0.118 | 0.312*** | 0.115*** | 0.0764 | 0.0272 | 0.063*** |
(0.180) | (0.083) | (0.015) | (0.059) | (0.022) | (0.016) | |
3rd | 0.195 | 0.230*** | 0.112*** | 0.0583 | 0.0948*** | 0.081*** |
(0.181) | (0.071) | (0.012) | (0.053) | (0.020) | (0.015) | |
4th | 0.486*** | 0.267*** | 0.227*** | 0.194*** | 0.182*** | 0.0718*** |
(0.180) | (0.067) | (0.015) | (0.059) | (0.020) | (0.016) | |
Richest | 0.495*** | 0.421*** | 0.399*** | 0.213*** | 0.359*** | 0.126*** |
(0.181) | (0.068) | (0.012) | (0.071) | (0.023) | (0.016) | |
Control variables | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
Constant | 8.099*** | −0.112 | −0.335 | 8.181*** | −0.363*** | 0.407** |
(0.509) | (0.157) | (0.530) | (0.193) | (0.057) | (0.185) | |
Observations | 618 | 4910 | 618 | 4858 | 41,256 | 4858 |