Overview
- 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
- Analyzes the impact of EU competition law and policy on the regulatory framework adopted at the national level in several European social healthcare insurance markets
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (HEPP, volume 10)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 design and 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 of different 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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The purpose is to provide ‘insights on the institutional and regulatory design of public and private’ financing of healthcare in some OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) countries. … It could be used by high-level masters and doctoral students interested in public policy, health policy, or health services research. … This book is narrowly focused and reads more like a research study than an informative, instructional text. … There are very good comparison tables listing basic and supplemental services among OECD selected countries.” (Carole Ann Kenner, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2010)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Care Financing and Insurance
Book Subtitle: Options for Design
Authors: Francesco Paolucci
Series Title: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10794-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10793-1Published: 05 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26585-3Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-10794-8Published: 28 October 2010
Series ISSN: 0927-4987
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 115
Topics: Public Health, Public Economics, Population Economics, Finance, general, Social Policy