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Effects of expanding a non-contributory health insurance scheme on out-of-pocket healthcare spending by the poor in Turkey.

Abdullah TirgilWilliam T DickensRifat Atun
Published in: BMJ global health (2019)
Increasing benefits coverage for a non-contributory insurance programme leads to financial protection for the poor by reducing out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditures. It is even more effective at reducing out-of-pocket health spending for those whose health expenditures that lie on the high end of healthcare spending distribution.
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