The wage-dependence of the Public Health Insurance (PHI) as well as the somewhat inconsistent parallel coverage via PHI and private health insurance constitute drawbacks of the present health care revenue system, leading to undesirable distributional and allocative patterns and disadvantages in...

In letzter Zeit wurde von einigen Wissenschaftlern der Vorschlag gemacht, die Finanzierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung auf einkommensunabhängige Kopfpauschalen umzustellen. Die Autoren stellen in dieser Arbeit deshalb einleitend die unterschiedlichen Vorschläge verschiedener Gutachter...

Recently several experts have proposed to replace the existing social health insurance revenue system by income-independent per capita contributions. Therefore the authors of this paper present different estimates for alternative forms of per capita contributions. The next step of the analysis...