This article uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine the complex interplay of forces that shape the health insurance reform trajectory in China since the mid-1980s, problems that plague the current multi-layered social medical insurance system and solutions to...

Summary Health care systems are financed through a mixture of different components: taxes, contributions to social health insurance, premiums to private health insurance, out of pocket payments by patients. These components can be combined differently leading to specific effects of interpersonal...

Zusammenfassung: Die Beitragssatzentwicklung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) und der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung (SPV) wird analytisch in einen Demographieeffekt, einen Ausgabenniveaueffekt und einen Einkommenseffekt aufgeteilt. Empirisch zeigt sich, dass der reine...