In times of ever-rising health expenditures it is becoming more and more obvious that conventional models for funding health care are increasingly experiencing difficulties in meeting up this challenge. The concept of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) represents an innovative and so far rarely...

Front Cover -- Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Regulated Competition in Health Insurance Markets: Foreword by Alain Enthoven -- Acknowledgments -- I: Theory -- 1 Regulated Competition in...

"Risk adjustment, risk sharing and premium regulation in health insurance markets: theory and practice" describes the goals, design and evaluation of health plan payment systems. Part I contains 5 chapters discussing the role of health plan payment in regulated health insurance markets, key...

Aims: We analyzed the redistributive outcomes for sickness benefits using a typology of social insurance institutions compared to external factors for sickness risk. Material: Unbalanced panel data of the Luxembourg Income Study on household earnings, sickness benefits and labour force...