Towards Neo-Bismarckian Health Care States? Comparing Health Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 40-61

  Hassenteufel, Patrick ^a   Palier, Bruno ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Centre for Political Research of Sciences   (France)

Author keywords

Access who has the right to benefit from the health system?; Comparing health insurance reforms; Health insurances social insurances; Main historical characteristics of health insurance systems; National health systems ensuring equality of access to health care and low levels of health spending; Reducing mandatory health insurance coverage; Retrenchment in Bismarckian Health Insurance systems; Specific problems of health insurance systems; The organization and regulation of system; Towards Neo Bismarckian health care states

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053907084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306798.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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