The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, yet its system produces inferior outcomes relative to those in other countries. This brief examines the health care reform debate and argues that the basic structure of the health care system is unlikely to change, because...

Ziel dieser Studie ist die Entwicklung einer thematischen Auslegeordnung zu strategischen Herausforderungen und politischen Handlungsfeldern aus Perspektive der Krankenversicherer. Zu diesem Zweck werden ausgehend von so‐ genannten Megatrends zentrale strategische Herausforderungen...

The remarkable growth of older population has moved long-term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda in the European Union. This paper addresses the issue of the longterm care in Lithuania, its philosophy, the legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. Its...

In the field of social protection, Poland belongs to the EU group of countries with the familybased welfare model, what is extremely visible for the long-term care where family is the main care provider for elderly individuals with limitations in activities of daily living. At the same time the...

The increasing life expectancy and the alarming growth in the incidence of chronic illness make long term care services in high demand and in dire need of change and innovation. As part of the ANCIEN initiative, which aims to comprise a database of European approaches for dealing with long term...

Für die schwarz-gelbe Regierungskoalition stand im ersten Regierungsjahr 2010 eine Gesundheitsreform weit oben auf der Agenda. Ihr Hauptziel sollte darin bestehen, durch die Einführung einer Gesundheitsprämie mit Sozialausgleich eine grundlegende Finanzierungsreform der Gesetzlichen...