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Two Centuries of Solidarity German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008 (German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008) by Widdershoven, B.E.M.; Companje, K.P.; Hendriks, R.H.M.; Veraghtert, K.F.E. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Today, 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

Author

Widdershoven, B.E.M.; Companje, K.P.; Hendriks, R.H.M.; Veraghtert, K.F.E.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048521289