Quantity rationing is widely used by the traditional literature on public health care expenditure determination as a … means to justify the coexistence of the private health care sector. However, this artefact is not suitable for a wide range … of health care services that have an "all or nothing" characteristic. In this paper, we use another kind of rationing …

the financial crisis on the delivery of education and health services appeared to be delayed and was mitigated by the …

. Before the crisis, the governments of these countries were substantially increasing spending on education and health. The … crisis, despite the fiscal constraints, public education and health expenditures have mostly been maintained or increased in …

Rationale: Brazil's healthcare system - the Unified Health System (SUS) offers free and universal access to health to … high complexity procedures in the Ministry of Health healthcare budget from 2000 to 2004. Methodology: Patients under the … High Complexity/Costs subsystem were identified in the Ministry of Health's database (DATASUS). Annual expenses were …

Funding for Canadian public health care has long relied on a “pay-as-you-go” funding model: for the most part …, government pays for health costs each year from taxes collected in that fiscal year with effectively nothing put aside for … projected rising health-care costs in the future. But the future of Canadian public health care is going to get more expensive …

This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health … political crisis in 2010. Despite these crisis conditions, public health expenditures have increased substantially. In education …-term is going to be difficult, so efficiency-oriented reforms need to be implemented in health care and especially in …

, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …