Nationale Krankenversicherungssysteme Europas im Systemwettbewerb / National Health Care Systems Exposed to Institutional Competition

Daumann Frank
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Daumann Frank: Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2000, vol. 220, issue 5, 527-540

Abstract: The health care systems of the EU-member states are based on the social principle but to a different extent, and there are also differences in funding the health care expenditures. Some systems are financed by taxes, others by insurance premiums. Actually to become a member of a specific EU state's health system it is necessary to live or to work in this state. This means e. g. that getting a benefit from a tax-funded type requires paying taxes in this state. Free factor movement and free trade lead to an institutional competition which is weakend by the fact that an individual can only choose between whole bundles of services and taxes.The conclusion could be drawn that free access to such a health care system would strengthen the competition between these systems. But it can be shown that this kind of liberalization would lead to a breakdown, if all the health services used in any member state were refunded by the home health system.

Keywords: Health care systems; institutional competition; European integration; Krankenversicherungssysteme; Systemwettbewerb; Europäische Integration; Health care systems; institutional competition; European integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2000-0503

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