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2013
Political Economy of Healthcare Schemes and Reforms
VOSTATEK, Jaroslav
Basic information
Original name
Political Economy of Healthcare Schemes and Reforms
Authors
VOSTATEK, Jaroslav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Praha, Teoretické a praktické aspekty veřejných financí, p. 235-245, 11 pp. 2013
Other information
Type of outcome
Stať ve sborníku
Field of Study
50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
printed version "print"
RIV identification code
RIV/04274644:_____/13:#0000022
Organization unit
University of Finance and Administration
Keywords in English
healthcare; health insurance; National Health Service; health reform; welfare regimes
V originále
The mission of the theory is to offer complex healthcare models, corresponding to the respective social models. The National Health Service model may also today be considered as a viable, social-democratic model of the basic health protection. The social health insurance model was markedly modified by the transition to the universal health care provision to all residents and there are strengthening tendencies to the split-off of the health insurance from the social insurance system; the result might be a transition to the NHS model or, on the contrary, to the mandatory private health insurance (neoliberal model). The mandatory private insurance system envisages a fully fundamental state regulation not only of this insurance but also of the whole healthcare provision system. The choice of the healthcare scheme is a question a political, economic and social choice and the particular solution is not seldom also substantially influenced by the stakeholders. That is why there are also substantial deviations of the paradigmatic reforms from the corresponding theoretical models.
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