Romania’s Private Health Insurance Market Potential

Gheorghe Matei and Bianca Volintiru
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Gheorghe Matei: University of Craiova, Romania
Bianca Volintiru: University of Craiova, Romania

Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, 2012, vol. 12, issue 3, 159-166

Abstract: The significant gap between the quality of life and the level of health expenditure has led to the need to reconsider the modalities and the sources of collecting and redirecting the funds of the sanitary sector in such a way that sustainable medical results are generated for the entire population of the globe. Under these circumstances, the role of private health insurance is constantly increasing, even though its importance is still being influenced by the types of social policy and the dimension of the public health sector at national level. Due to the impact of these factors, the actual dimension of private health insurance market varies significantly across countries. In order to be able to realistically assess the level of development of the private health insurance market in Romania, the analysis has to be taken further than the simplistic measurement of indicators such as income and expenditure.

Keywords: private health insurance; density of private health insurance; degree of penetration of private health insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 I13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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