The discussion concerning long-term care insurance in Germany barely exceeds the financial state of the social system. The view of the insured involved is largely ignored. This paper analyses the effect of the introduction of compulsory long-term care insurance in 1995 in Germany on the...

Background: The financial burden for EU health systems associated with cardiovascular disease has been estimated to be nearly € 110 billion in 2006, corresponding to 10% of total healthcare expenditure across EU or a mean € 223 annual cost per capita. The main purpose of this study is to...

In this paper empirical evidence for substitution processes caused by the budget for drugs prescribed by office-based physicians is provided. Due to substitution processes in a natural experiment the number of referrals and hospital admissions increased significantly after the introduction of a...