TY - BOOK ID - 14199658 TI - Health Care Financing and Insurance : Options for Design PY - 2011 SN - 3642107931 9786612971662 1282971662 364210794X PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Health insurance -- OECD countries. KW - Medical care -- OECD countries -- Finance. KW - Medical care KW - Health insurance KW - Public Health KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Public Health - General KW - Medical Economics KW - Finance KW - Medical economics. KW - Health insurance. KW - Finance. KW - Health plans, Prepaid KW - Insurance, Health KW - Medical care, Prepaid KW - Medical insurance KW - Prepaid health plans KW - Prepaid medical care KW - Sickness insurance KW - Economics, Medical KW - Health KW - Health economics KW - Hygiene KW - Medicine KW - Economic aspects KW - Medicine. KW - Public health. KW - Public finance. KW - Social policy. KW - Population. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Public Health. KW - Public Economics. KW - Population Economics. KW - Finance, general. KW - Social Policy. KW - Insurance KW - Ambulance service KW - Health care reform KW - Home care services KW - Hospitals KW - Medically uninsured persons KW - Surgical clinics KW - Prospective payment KW - Emergency services KW - Outpatient services KW - Rehabilitation services KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Economic policy KW - Family policy KW - Social history KW - Funding KW - Funds KW - Economics KW - Currency question KW - Human population KW - Human populations KW - Population growth KW - Populations, Human KW - Human ecology KW - Sociology KW - Demography KW - Malthusianism KW - Cameralistics KW - Public finance KW - Public finances KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14199658 AB - 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. The distinction between basic and supplementary health care insurance, and how they are regulated, is of fundamental importance to health care financing. This book makes a welcome contribution to the literature on this subject, providing insights into how the problem is addressed in a number of countries. It will be of considerable interest to a wide variety of scholars and practitioners. James RG Butler, Director, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia This book offers a detailed analysis of supplementary health insurance and its use in several nations. In doing so, it provides important insights into health insurance reform options relevant to nearly every wealthy nation. Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor and Director, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, USA Francesco Paolucci gives an interesting theoretical overview of the rationale for different systems of health care finance, focusing on the interrelationship between mandatory and supplementary or voluntary systems. He illustrates his theoretical arguments with a revealing empirical analysis, taking into account carefully the specific institutional features of the different countries. His analysis is interesting for academics as well as for policy-makers. Erik Schokkaert, Department of Economics, KULeuven, Belgium. ER -