Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The …-compatible insurance contracts, for example through the introduction of copayment schemes. On the revenue side, income redistribution … carried out through wage-based insurance contributions. …

treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in … authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or …

implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that … several areas of such an insurance system would have to be regulated by the state. Such a reform is much more complicated than …

preserving incentives for an efficient delivery of health care services. In particular, we examine the inclusion of additional …

As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a … consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance the co-payment aimed at changing the patients' behaviour towards more … physician contacts still take place e.g. in case of disabled persons and persons with poor health. In addition no discrimination …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …