Conventional wisdom suggests that if private health insurance plans compete alongside a public option, they may … choosing private health insurance to address this challenge. The empirical setting is the health insurance system in Germany …, where there exists an unsubsidized non-group for-profit private health insurance market in parallel to a statutory …

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural … adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals covered by private health insurance as well as youths have been …

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural … adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals covered by private health insurance as well as youths have been …

A project aimed at presenting initial results from the implementation of the System of Health Accounts has been carried … by the Health Policy Unit at the OECD and experts from thirteen member countries. The results are presented in the form … of a comparative study (OECD Health Working Papers No. 16) and a set of OECD Health Technical Papers presenting …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness …, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing … standard socio-demographic characteristics influence the reporting style of health care users with regard to the question of …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …