Health Care Financing and Insurance Options for Design /

As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to analyse...

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Main Author: Paolucci, Francesco. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, 10
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10794-8
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Table of Contents:
  • General Introduction
  • Economic Rationales for the Design of Health Care Financing Schemes
  • The Design of Health Care Financing Schemes in Different Countries
  • The Potential for Risk Rating in Competitive Markets for Supplementary Health Insurance: An Empirical Analysis
  • Competition and Solidarity in in Health Insurance Markets: An Economic Analysis of the EC Legal Framework
  • Risk Selection Via Health Insurance in Universal Mandatory Health Insurance for Basic Services: A Five-Country Comparison
  • Conclusions and Discussion.