The low level of health expenditure per capita and the lack of efficiency within the Romanian health insurance system call for the creation and implementation of certain additional means medical risk management and healthcare financing. Therefore, in 2011 a bill has been drafted introducing an...

This paper aims at analyzing characteristics of private health insurance (PHI) in low- and middle income countries and evaluating its significance for national health systems. In many countries the importance of PHI to finance health care is on a rise. Various factors contribute to this...