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Achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk protection and access to quality essential health-care services, is one of the main Sustainable Development Goals. In low-income countries, innovative and affordable health financing systems are key to realize these goals. This paper assesses the impacts of Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme in Rwanda on health-related financial risks using a nationally representative household survey data collected over a ten-year period. We find that the scheme significantly reduce annual per capita out-of-pocket spending by about 3,600 Rwandan Franc (about US$12) or about 83 percent of average per capita healthcare expenditure compared to the baseline level in 2000.The impacts however favor the rich as compared to the poor. The program also reduces the incidence of catastrophic healthcare spending significantly.

Insurance --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Single Equation Models --- Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models --- Spatial Models --- Treatment Effect Models --- Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Truncated and Censored Models --- Microeconomic Policy: Formulation --- Implementation --- Evaluation --- Insurance Companies --- Actuarial Studies --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Health: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Insurance & actuarial studies --- Public finance & taxation --- Health economics --- Expenditure --- Health --- Income --- Consumption --- Financial institutions --- National accounts --- Expenditures, Public --- Economics --- Rwanda