Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries [E-Book]: The Benefits and Costs for Individuals and Health Systems / Francesca Colombo and Nicole Tapay
Governments often look to private health insurance (PHI) as a possible means of addressing some health system challenges. For example, they may consider enhancing its role as an alternative source of health financing and a way to increase system capacity, or promoting it as a tool to further additio...
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Personal Name(s): | Colombo, Francesca. |
Tapay, Nicole. | |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing,
2004
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Physical Description: |
62 p. ; 21 x 29.7cm. |
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englisch |
DOI: |
10.1787/527211067757 |
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OECD Health Working Papers ;
15 |
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Social Issues/Migration/Health |
Governments often look to private health insurance (PHI) as a possible means of addressing some health system challenges. For example, they may consider enhancing its role as an alternative source of health financing and a way to increase system capacity, or promoting it as a tool to further additional health policy goals, such as enhanced individual responsibility. In some countries policy makers regard PHI as a key element of their health coverage systemsWhile private health insurance represents, on average, only a small share of total health funding across the OECD area, it plays a significant role in health financing in some OECD countries and it covers at least 30% of the population in a third of the OECD members. It also plays a variety of roles, ranging from primary coverage for particular population groups to a supporting role for public systems.This paper assesses evidence on the effects of PHI in different national contexts and draws conclusions about its ... |