Le reste-à-charge en santé nuit-il à l’équité dans le financement des soins ? Une comparaison des systèmes de santé en Europe

Florence Jusot and Adèle Lemoine
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Florence Jusot: Legos - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Santé - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, IRDES - Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Adèle Lemoine: ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In order to guarantee equal access to healthcare, it must be funded in an equitable manner to ensure that people are not forced to forgo healthcare and to prevent healthcare frombecoming too large a financial burden for patients. This is achieved by ensuring that healthcare received by the poorest people is subsidised by wealthier people, while also ensuringthat patients suffering poor health are not burdened with excessive costs for a given income. In practice, patients are required to cover some of their healthcare costs across all European healthcare systems. Since out-of-pockets are only paid by healthcare consumers, their existence may compromise equity in healthcare financing. In this article, we evaluate how out-of-pockets contribute to vertical and horizontal equity in healthcare financing for people aged 50 and over in Europe. Using concentration indices, we demonstrate that equity in financing is not respected, particularly in healthcare systems where out-of-pockets are the least regulated.

Keywords: out-of-pocket; equity; healthcare financing; healthcare systems; Reste à charge; équité; financement des soins; systèmes de santé (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2024, 542, pp.57-58. ⟨10.24187/ecostat.2024.542.2111⟩

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DOI: 10.24187/ecostat.2024.542.2111

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