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...