Private Health Insurance (eBook, ePUB)

History, Politics and Performance
Redaktion: Thomson, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can private health insurance fill gaps in publicly financed coverage? Does it enhance access to health care or improve efficiency in health service delivery? Will it provide fiscal relief for governments struggling to raise public revenue for health? This book examines the successes, failures and challenges of private health insurance globally through country case studies written by leading national experts. Each case study considers the role of history and politics in shaping private health insurance and determining its impact on health system performance. Despite great diversity in the size and functioning of markets for private health insurance, the book identifies clear patterns across countries, drawing out valuable lessons for policymakers while showing how history and politics have proved a persistent barrier to effective public policy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108901161
• Artikelnr.: 62746615

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why private health insurance? Sarah Thomson, Anna Sagan and Elias
Mossialos; 2. Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian
health insurance Jane Hall, Denzil G. Fiebig and Keens van Gool; 3. Private
health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz,
Noah Haber, Philipa Mladovsky, Emma Pitchforth, Wael Fayek Saleh and Flavia
Mori Sarti; 4. Private health insurance in Canada Jeremiah Hurley and G.
Emmanuel Guindon; 5. Regulating private health insurance: France's attempt
at getting it all Agnès Couffinhal and Carine Franc; 6. Statutory and
private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence
and conflict Stefanie Ettelt and Andres Roman-Urrestarazu; 7. Uncovering
the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland Brian Turner and
Samantha Smith; 8. Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli
health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values Shuli
Brammli-Greenberg, Ruth Waitzberg and Revital Gross; 9. Private health
insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China Soonman Kwon, Naoki
Ikegami and Yue-Chune Lee; 10. The role of private health insurance in
financing health care in Kenya David Muthaka; 11. Private health insurance
in the Netherlands Hans Maarse and Patrick Jeurissen; 12. The challenges of
pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries:
lessons from South Africa Di McIntyre and Heather McLeod; 13. Undermining
risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings
accounts in South Africa Heather McLeod and Di McIntyre; 14.
Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed
by federalism and direct democracy Luca Crivelli; 15. Regression to the
increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America
Lawrence D. Brown and Sherry A Glied; 16. Health savings accounts in the
United States of America Sherry A. Glied, Dan P. Ly and Lawrence D. Brown.