to social health insurance are negative at young age and positive at old age. Economists arguing in favour of flat health … calculations reveal that under the current pay-as-you-go system German social health insurance burdens future generations by almost …

The objective of this text is to develop the theory of social health insurance (SHI; the expression used especially in …

This contribution seeks to answer two related questions. First, what is the purpose of social health insurance? Or put … private health insurance in most developed countries? And second, what are the limits of social health insurance? Can one say … that there is "too much" social health insurance in the following two senses: Should the balance be shifted towards the …