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 the designand the complex interactions between various financing and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries. This study provides a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the financial and organisational structures ofdifferent countries’ healthcare financing and insurance schemes. Its main contributions are the development of a novel and rigorous theoretical framework analysing the economic rationales for the optimal design of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, and an empirical and institutional analysis investigating the consequences for efficiency and affordability of the complex interactions between basic and supplementary sources of financing. Presents a unique combination of conceptual, institutional, and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems in several countries Proposes a new classification of healthcare financing schemes applicable to all OECD countries Analyzesthe impact of EU competition law and policy on the regulatory framework adopted at the national level in several European social healthcare insurance markets INDICE: 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.- Solidarity in CompetitiveInsurance Markets: Analysing the Relevant EC Legal Framework.- Supplementary Heatlh Insurance as a Tool for Risk Selection in Mandatory Basic Health Insurance Markets: A Five-Country Comparison.- Conclusions and Discussion.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-10793-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés