Private health insurance : history, politics and performance /
"A disproportionate impact on health system performance Private health insurance makes a small contribution to spending on health in most countries around the world, but its effect on health system performance can be surprisingly large owing to market failures and weaknesses in public policy. B...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | European observatory on health systems and policies
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Table of Contents:
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- Why private health insurance? / Elias Mossialos 2.
- Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance / Kees van Gool 3.
- Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India / Flavia Mori Sarti 4.
- Private health insurance in Canada / G. Emmanuel Guindon 5.
- Regulating private health insurance: France's attempt at getting it all / Carine Franc 6.
- Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict / Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 7.
- Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland / Samantha Smith 8.
- Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values / Ruth Waitzberg 9.
- Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China / Yue-Chune Lee 10.
- The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya / David Muthaka 11.
- Private health insurance in the Netherlands / Patrick Jeurissen 12.
- The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa / Heather McLeod 13.
- Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa / Di Mclntyre 14.
- Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy / Luca Crivelli 15.
- Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America / Sherry A.
- Glied 16.
- Health savings accounts in the United States of America / Lawrence D. Brown.