Zuzahlungen nach dem GKV-Modernisierungsgesetz (GMG) unter Beruecksichtigung von Haertefallregelungen

Anita B. Pfaff (), Bernhard Langer (), Florian Mamberer (), Florian Freund (), Axel Kern () and Martin Pfaff ()
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Anita B. Pfaff: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics
Bernhard Langer: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics
Florian Mamberer: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics
Florian Freund: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics
Martin Pfaff: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics

No 253, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: The law for the Modernisation of the Social Health Insurance System 2003 ("GKV-Modernisierungsgesetz – GMG" 2003) provides, among other measures, for a noticeable increase in co-payments and also for a reduction of possibilities for claiming exemptions from co-payments. Against this backdrop, the authors of the paper present, at the start, the varying news on co-insurance payments held by different political groups. Thereafter, the theoretical foundations of co-payments are described. Finally, on the basis of extensive empirically founded computations, the effects of the new co-payment rules (together with relevant new exemptions) are compared with the effects of the rules still in force.

Keywords: Social Health Insurance System; co-payment; public finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-11
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