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Book contents
- Private Health Insurance
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Private Health Insurance History, Politics and Performance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Why private health insurance?
- 2 Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance
- 3 Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India
- 4 Private health insurance in Canada
- 5 Regulating private health insurance: France’s attempt at getting it all
- 6 Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict
- 7 Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland
- 8 Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values
- 9 Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China
- 10 The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya
- 11 Private health insurance in the Netherlands
- 12 The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa
- 13 Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa
- 14 Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy
- 15 Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America
- 16 Health savings accounts in the United States of America
- Index
- References
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2020
- Private Health Insurance
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Private Health Insurance History, Politics and Performance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Why private health insurance?
- 2 Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance
- 3 Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India
- 4 Private health insurance in Canada
- 5 Regulating private health insurance: France’s attempt at getting it all
- 6 Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict
- 7 Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland
- 8 Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values
- 9 Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China
- 10 The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya
- 11 Private health insurance in the Netherlands
- 12 The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa
- 13 Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa
- 14 Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy
- 15 Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America
- 16 Health savings accounts in the United States of America
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Private Health InsuranceHistory, Politics and Performance, pp. iiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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