Funding Health Care

The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including: taxation; social, voluntary and supplementary forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. Chapters written by leading health policy analysts review recent evidence and experience in both eastern and western Europe. This volume is introduced by a summary chapter which integrates conceptual issues in funding with an overview of the main advantages and disadvantages of each method of funding drawn from the expert chapters.

Author: Elias Mossialos
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01/01/2002
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.42h x 6.68w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780335209248

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