This paper examines the overall effect of national health insurance on the precautionary savings due to uncertain and potentially large medical expenses. Recognizing that an insurance policy may have a significant effect on factor price, we propose a theoretical framework which incorporates both the national health insurance program and the supply side factocs so that we can evaluate the overall effect. We also allow the labor supply to be endogenous. The major result of this paper is that, given for factor prices, the provision of national health insurance discourages savings if individuals are risk-averse. Moreover, if the individual's risk aversion function is decreasing, the overall effect of lowering the coinsurance rate given a balanced-budget constraint is to discourage savings.