This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

competition among funds, others argue that there are still funds which engage heavily in risk selection and are thereby able to … preserving incentives for an efficient delivery of health care services. In particular, we examine the inclusion of additional … possible to improve the formula without diminishing the incentives for efficiency if the risk adjusters "income" and "marital …

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 …

the statutory long-term care insurance and are billed to those in need of care. It has increased significantly in the past … - across all states. The reason for this is that until 2015, the insurance lines were not adjusted to the actual cost … 2015, insurance benefits were actually devalued over time. Since the latest reform in 2017, a significant increase in this …

The changing age structure of Germany's population requires a change in the financing model of the German health sector …