Der Anteil der Ausgaben der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung am Bruttonationaleinkommen ist zwar seit der Wiedervereinigung von 5,9 auf 6,9 Prozent gestiegen. Abgesehen von dem Niveausprung nach der Finanzmarktkrise im Jahr 2009 blieb die Quote aber weitgehend stabil. Ein anderes Bild ergibt...

Limited language proficiency among migrants has been shown to limit migrants from various aspects of everyday life, from the labor market to government services. In the USA, language access laws have been enacted to help provide Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals and households access...

Ernsthaft wurde bisher die Einführung einer Einheitskrankenversicherung in Deutschland nicht diskutiert. Und das, obwohl diese grundsätzlich deutliche Effizienzgewinne für das System der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung mit sich brächte. Angesichts der Herausforderungen in den kommenden...

Background: This contribution seeks to measure preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands, using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made citizens explicitly choose a health insurance contract,...

This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of quality management systems in terms of certification...

Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. Objective: This paper investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for...

Ensuring ‘health for all’ remains a persistent and entrenched global challenge. G20 governments are in a position to elevate the priority accorded to health, and acknowledge the centrality of health to attaining the SDGs. The authors call on G20 leaders to build nations that are more...

In many markets insurers are barred from price discrimination based on con- sumer characteristics like age, gender, and medical history. In this paper, I build on a recent literature to show why such policies are inefficient if consumers differ in their willingness-to-pay for insurance...

Polish legislation names the general health insurance system as the main source of health care funding. Public health care funding in Poland is relatively small compared with other European countries, which restricts population’s access to medical services and exposes the health care system to...