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Towards sustainable health care systems : strategies in health insurance schemes in France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands ; a comparative study

Henke, Klaus-Dirk; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2004

compares the health care systems of France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Due to the complexity of the different …

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Cost-sharing in the German health care system

Gericke, Christian A.; Wismar, Matthias; Busse, Reinhard - 2004

In Germany, cost-sharing for health care has been used as a financing mechanism since 1923. In this article, the … historical development of user charges in Germany since the 1980s is presented in more detail by type of private expenditure … of cost-sharing on equity, efficiency and health outcomes in Germany are presented. …

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The effect of a bonus program for preventive health behavior on health expenditures

Augurzky, Boris; Reichert, Arndt R.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012

This paper contributes to the analysis of policy measures that attempt to reduce health care expenditures of insurers. We examine the impact of a cash bonus program for preventive health behavior of a German health insurer on prevention effort and health care expenditures using a unique...