The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Financing

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Institutional legacies are one broad explanation for considerable and persisting differences in the ways nations finance their healthcare systems (Pierson 2004; Taylor-Gooby 1996; Wilsford 1994). Yet it is clear that although all countries throughout the world rely on their own, specific funding-mix in healthcare, this mixture is also subject to readjustment and change (Huber 1998: 63; Scott 2001: 3). Changes in the funding mix may be caused by political interventions such as the inclusion of new groups in a public health1 insurance scheme, changes in co-payment rules or the scope of the benefit package covered by the public system (Maarse 2004b). Different growth trends of healthcare sectors which are predominantly financed by rather private or public funds may also alter the funding-mix substantially (Tuohy et al. 2004). Neither the financing structure nor funding levels have therefore been static during the past decades. While the development of total health expenditure and its determinants have been analyzed extensively, the evolution of public healthcare spending and of differences in the funding-mix across countries have attracted less attention (Barros 2007; for notable exceptions see Castles 2004; Comas-Herrera 1999; Mossialos and Dixon 2002; Starke et al. 2008). In this chapter we scrutinize the role of the state as a financer versus other sources of financing since the early 1970s in 23 OECD countries (see Chapter 1).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe State and Healthcare : Comparing OECD Countries
EditorsHeinz Rothgang, Mirella Cacace, Simone Grimmeisen, Claus Wendt
Number of pages28
Place of PublicationHoundmills/Basingstoke
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date2010
Pages25-52
ISBN (print)978-0230005488
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Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

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  • Health sciences - Health Expenditure, public spending, purchase power parity, public healthcare, private financing

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