Ansätze anderer Industrieländer sind zunehmend Vorbild für gesundheitspolitische Reformen in Deutschland. Am Beispiel des Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung untersucht dieser Beitrag den Einfluss anderer Gesundheitssysteme auf die deutsche Reformdebatte erstmals...

This paper discusses the influence of recent health care reform acts in Germany on choice, guidance and access from the perspective of patients, insured, insurers, and health care providers. Particular emphasis is put on health policy reforms since 2004, i.e. the Social Health Insurance...

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The paper analyzes the effects of shifting income redistribution entirely to the tax system, while confining public health systems to their insurance role. We argue that this reform...

Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The paper analyzes the effects of shifting this kind of redistribution to the tax system and argues that this reform could create two types of efficiency gains. On the expenditure side,...

Die Gesundheitsausgaben sind in Deutschland vergleichsweise hoch. Die WHO hat den Output und die Performance (Verhältnis von Input und Output) des deutschen Gesundheitssystems als nur durchschnittlich beurteilt. Auch in den Qualitätsindikatoren der OECD schneidet das deutsche Gesundheitssystem...

In most wealthy democracies as represented by long-term OECD-members, healthcare systems have been established which guarantee access to a broad package of health services. However, healthcare financing involves varying distributive effects and builds on different concepts of solidarity....