To achieve complete payment of, say, 60% of expenditure between the deductible and the limit for catastrophic insurance would require a further payment of CNY 200 per person. This, moreover, is without allowing for the price elasticity of demand which, while lower than unity, is still sufficient to increase total outlays significantly when out-of-pocket expenses fall (Brown and Theoharides, 2009). With the system still not fully rolled out, it is too early to look for effects on macro-level health outcomes.