Does the Development of the Insurance Industry Promote the Purchase of Rural Commercial Health Insurance?

Abstract

Deepening the reform of insurance companies and improving commercial insurance protection capabilities become issues important to national strategy. They involve improving China's multi-tiered social security system to analyze the deep-seated reasons impacting the purchasing behavior of commercial health insurance for rural residents in China. Using the DEA-CCR model, this paper evaluates the development of China's insurance industry, inspects the impact of insurance industry development on purchasing behavior of rural commercial health insurance based on the data of tracking survey projects from China's household, and carries out empirical analysis. The research result shows that the development of the insurance industry has obviously promoted the purchase behavior of commercial health insurance for rural residents. This research has significant practical value on protection and promotion of production and life quality of rural residents, which will also provide beneficial reference on the formulation and implementation of future operation strategy in China's commercial health insurance companies.