Health Care Financing and Insurance Options for Design /

• Main Author: Paolucci, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, 10
• Subjects: Medicine.; Finance.; Public health.; Public finance.; Social policy.; Population.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Public Economics.; Population Economics.; Finance, general.; Social Policy.

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...

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.