CONFERENCES AND EVENTS 21 Liu Kai, He Jingwei. “Policy Synergy in Health Reform: How Does the Coordinated Reform of Health Insurance, Health Services and Pharmaceuticals Affect Healthcare Costs?” Jilin University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2025) Focus of Study This study combines medical policy text data (nearly 460,000 municipal-level documents) with micro survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to explore how the policy synergy of "three medical collaborations" (medical insurance, medical services, and pharmaceuticals) affects personal out-of-pocket medical expenses. It classi es policies into expansion-oriented (e.g., improving medical insurance bene ts, strengthening grassroots medical institutions) and constraint-oriented (e.g., DRG/DIP payment reforms, centralized drug procurement), nding that intra-system synergy between medical insurance expansion and constraint policies, as well as inter-system synergy across the three medical elds, signi cantly reduce such expenses, while a single medical insurance expansion policy without corresponding collaborative policies increases personal out-of-pocket medical spending. Policy Recommendations Policymakers should strengthen holistic governance, establish a multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism, and give full play to the leverage role of medical insurance in resource allocation to promote synergistic development of medical insurance, medical services, and pharmaceuticals. Alex Jingwei He, Ling Zhu, Jiwei Qian. “Policy design and policy feedback in welfare retrenchment: A survey experiment in China.” Policy Studies Journal (2025). Focus of Study This study explores how different policy designs and individual proximity to reform shape heterogeneous feedback effects in China’s welfare retrenchment, using a 2020 survey experiment in Guangdong Province targeting the proposed medical savings account reform. Bridging policy feedback and policy design theories, it examines two designs—one preserving individual material self-interest (e.g., family bene t coverage) and the other emphasizing sociotropic gains (e.g., broader healthcare protection). The research nds moderate de facto retrenchment triggers public opposition, with policy designs and individuals’ past experiences with existing health insurance (e.g., account usage frequency) driving divergent attitudinal and behavioral responses. Policy Recommendations Policymakers should adopt policy designs preserving individuals’ material interests (e.g., family bene t coverage) to mitigate opposition. They should also consider citizens’ policy proximity (e.g., account usage frequency) when formulating and communicating welfare retrenchment reforms.
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