Risk Selection is an issue in social health insurance in Germany as well as in private health insurance markets with long-term contracts. The inducement to primariliy select healthier insurants (cream skimming) is high. For community-rated systems there are attempts to install a...

In the private health insurance (phi) market in Germany ageing provisions are used to reduce age-related premium increases in long-term contracts. Currently, the provisions are not transferred if the insured person switches to another provider. Thus, there are no incentives for the insured to...

Sozialabgaben senken oder Steuersätze reduzieren: Wie sollte die Teilhabe an den Einkommenssteigerungen im Zuge des Aufschwungs für die Bürger realisiert werden, und wer sollte am meisten davon profitieren? Walther Otremba, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, plädiert vor...