Abstract: Sind höhere Prämien für Frauen in der privaten Krankenversicherung mit der EU-Richtlinie vom 13. Dezember 2004 vereinbar? Die Autoren untersuchen, ob Frauen höhere Gesundheitskosten als Männer verursachen und ob diese Unterschiede auch erhalten bleiben, wenn die Kosten von...

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...

We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system. Our theoretical model shows that this relationship will depend on the prioritization established by the public health authorities, the cost of waiting and...