last but not least, China’s universal health insurance
coverage is attributed to its programmatic strategy of first
achieving wide but shallow coverage before expanding
benefits.According to the strategy, both NRCMS and URBMI
covered inpatient services only when they were launched.
Then,the two programs started to cover outpatient services
in 2010. The governments also added to these programs
a list of priority diseases for enhanced benefit coverage
[47]. After the reform’s first stage of implementation in
2009–2011, the central government decided in 2012 on
further reforms to expand insurance benefits, improve
coverage portability, and encourage complementary coverage
by private insurance. Such a programmatic strategy
through multi-stage implementations ensures China to
proceed steadily towards better access for its citizens