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dc.contributor.authorCompanje, K.P.
dc.contributor.authorHendriks, R.H.M.
dc.contributor.authorVeraghtert, K.F.E.
dc.contributor.authorWiddershoven, B.E.M.
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-30 13:24:37
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:27:40Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:27:40Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier353800
dc.identifierOCN: 751962298en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34832
dc.description.abstractToday, health insurance is a key component in the system of social security in most European Union countries. In many of these countries, modern health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers play an essential role in implementing the public health-insurance system. Many of these health-insurance funds have a long and fascinating history, of which clear traces can be seen today in the organisation and structure of health insurance, as well as health-insurance funds and insurers. In Two centuries of solidarity, the authors compare the systems of health insurance, health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Given the similar political, economic and social development that these countries have undergone in the past 60 years and the availability of a qualitatively high level of health care, one might expect a high degree of similarity between these countries' healthcare insurance systems. However, the dissimilarities are surprising. In fact, these differences are currently becoming ever more apparent between systems in general, and the structure and operation of the health insurance funds and health care insurers in particular. The differences include the compulsory nature of insurance, the extent of coverage, premiums, entrepreneurship, competition, and the degree of private insurance. Many of these national singularities can be understood and explained only by considering the historical background of the health insurance systems, the insurers, and their evolution over the past two centuries. This study adopts an institutional and political perspective towards a further understanding of the development of health insurance, and of how this ultimately determined the specific nature of the healthcare insurers and funds and the way they currently operate in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHistory of Healthcare Insurance
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.othergeschiedenis
dc.subject.otherhistory
dc.subject.othergeography
dc.subject.otherauxiliary disciplines
dc.subject.otherBelgium
dc.subject.otherGermany
dc.subject.otherHealth care
dc.subject.otherHealth insurance
dc.subject.otherInsurance
dc.subject.otherNetherlands
dc.titleTwo Centuries of Solidarity
dc.title.alternativeGerman, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_353800
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye594620f-6d70-4b21-b5e7-a9574474c0ab
oapen.relation.isbn9789052603445
oapen.series.number3
oapen.pages400
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Belgium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium; Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany; Health care - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care; Health insurance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance; Insurance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance; Netherlands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
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