Die Ausgaben für Gesundheitsdienstleistungen sind in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich außergewöhnlich hoch. Aber trotz der hohen Aufwendungen erreichen die Bürger eine eher mäßig lange Lebenserwartung bei Gesundheit. Das heißt, die ökonomische Effizienz des Gesundheitssysstems...

Canada and the United States are typically regarded as 'laggards' in welfare state development. They are regularly classified together as 'liberal' welfare states, with relatively lower levels of welfare state fiscal effort and coverage. There is some truth to this portrait overall, but in...

We use a sample of OECD countries in order to better understand why the US health care expenditure as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product ("health care effort") is so far above any other. To this end we employ a descriptive cross-country methodology based partially on econometric...