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  • Financing health care : what can we learn from CEE experience?
    Nemec, Juraj ...
    Our paper is based on four country samples - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. All these countries are new EU member states, where the (official) goal of the health-finance system is ... to guarantee universal and equal access to health services. In the first part the country studies describe the evolution of new health-finance systems in selected countries as well as the pros and cons of national solutions. The core part of this paper discusses two important health-financing issues - the decision about how to fund health services and particularly the decision about the relations of public and private funding of health care. We propose two core conclusions: first, because the mode of financing does not have a clear impact on outcomes of the health-care system, the decisions of CEE countries to switch from general taxation to social-insurance systems are based mainly on political rationality; second, introducing pluralistic social health insurance during early phases of transition is too risky.
    Source: Halduskultuur = Administrative culture = Administrativnaja kulʹtura = Verwaltungskultur = Hallintokulttuuri. - ISSN 1736-6070 (Vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, str. 212-237)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2013
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4476334

    Link(s):

    http://halduskultuur.eu/journal/index.php/HKAC/article/view/95/84

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