EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Unexpected impact of changes in out-of-pocket payments for health care on Czech household budgets

Veronika Kočiš Krůtilová and Sanni Yaya

Health Policy, 2012, vol. 107, issue 2, 276-288

Abstract: The Czech Republic is one of the countries that has a relatively low level of private spending on health. As a part of the health care reform package in 2008, some additional out-of-pocket payments were introduced, called ‘user (patient) fees’. Furthermore, the government intends to increase some user fees in the following years. There have been serious discussions between proponents and opponents because an increase in out of pocket payments for health care may create financial obstacles for some households and restrict the desirable consumption of health care.

Keywords: Private expenditures; Out-of-pocket payments; Burden of household budget; Catastrophic payments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851012001881
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:107:y:2012:i:2:p:276-288

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.07.002

Access Statistics for this article

Health Policy is currently edited by Katrien Kesteloot, Mia Defever and Irina Cleemput

More articles in Health Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu () and ().

 
Page updated 2025-02-14
Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:107:y:2012:i:2:p:276-288