To improve the poor’s access to healthcare services, the
Indonesian government introduced Askeskin, a subsidized
social health insurance for the poor. We examine the effects
of this social health insurance on women’s use of
healthcare—maternal, preventive, and curative healthcare—
services. Using propensity- score- and difference-indifferences
matching strategies, we find the insurance
increases the use of public facilities for maternal healthcare,
discourages the use of midwives’ services, and increases the
use of contraception; it does not seem to increase the use of
preventive and curative care, however.