The configuration of universal and optional healthcare financing schemes in Czechia

@inproceedings{7221,
   author = {Mertl, Jan},
   address = {Ostrava},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the international Scientific Conference Economic and Social Policy},
   editor = {Nálepová, V.},
   keywords = {Health system; health insurance; earmarked taxation; health savings; solidarity},
   howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"},
   language = {cze},
   location = {Ostrava},
   pages = {231-244},
   publisher = {VŠSS},
   title = {The configuration of universal and optional healthcare financing schemes in Czechia},
   year = {2018}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 7221
AU  - Mertl, Jan
PY  - 2018
TI  - The configuration of universal and optional healthcare financing schemes in Czechia
PB  - VŠSS
CY  - Ostrava
KW  - Health system
KW  - health insurance
KW  - earmarked taxation
KW  - health savings
KW  - solidarity
N2  - Health systems in developed countries have their universal and optional part. This paper demonstrates the importance and fiscal position of the universally available care and shows the possibilities where it can be extended by optional financing schemes such as prepaid health packages. We use comparative approach including international experience, SWOT analysis and synthesis of included concepts into single health system. A simple scheme of possible configurations is created and the consequences of utilizing the described concepts are discussed. Overall this paper brings a theoretically substantiated overview of health policy options for Czechia, that support principles of universally available care, solidarity, fiscal neutrality, adequate fiscal space for health and possibilities of optional private health expenditure.
ER  - 

MERTL, Jan. The configuration of universal and optional healthcare financing schemes in Czechia. In Nálepová, V. \textit{Proceedings of the international Scientific Conference Economic and Social Policy}. Ostrava: VŠSS, 2018, s.~231-244. ISSN~2571-1776.