The government health insurance system is referred to in different terms. In German, its called the Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (GKV) or also calledstatutory health insurance. The insurance companies are public insurers and are non-profit companies. They are also referred to as sickness funds ...
We describe and review the origins and development of the German and Chilean health care insurance systems with an emphasis on the substitutive co-existence between private health insurance and statutory social health insurance. We provide a critique of the market performance of the private health ...
Around 73 million people in Germany are covered by statutory health insurance, while nearly nine million are privately insured, according to the German Health Insurance Alliance (vdek). Citizens enrolled in statutory health insurance pay "more than necessary each year so that high-income earners, c...
In Chile, the choice of private insurance is dependent only on ability to pay because private plans are considerably more expensive than contributions to the public system and there are no limitations on who may or may not purchase private health insurance as in the German case [9]. However,...
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Private health insurancewaiting timeGerman acute care hospitalsThis paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the ...
There are numerous studies investigating the effect of health insurance on healthcare utilisation, but there is little empirical evidence examining the eff
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- 《Value in Health》 被引量: 96发表: 2011年 Excess costs of dementia disorders and the role of age and gender - an analysis of German health and long-term care insurance claims data Demographic ageing is associated with an increasing number of dementia patients, who reportedly incur higher ...
Approximately 90% of the German population is either a mandatory or a voluntary member of the public health insurance, while the remaining are insured under private health insurance. A total of over 73 million persons are insured in Germany. “There are three options to be insured in Germany;...