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What is From Few to Many : Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia about?

In the 1990s the nation of Colombia introduced mandatory health insurance, with the goals of improving access to care and protecting the population from impoverishing and inefficient spending as well as the hardships of illness and care-seeking. Financed through a combination of payroll contributions and general taxation, this comprehensive plan included a contributory regime for those able to pay and a fully subsidized regime for the extremely poor. From Few to Many presents the results and lessons drawn from a decade of reform implementation. The authors examine changes in the financing and d.

Author

Glassman, Amanda; Brookings Institution; Inter-American Development Bank

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press And The Inter-american Development Bank

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282558335

Subjects

Health & Fitness, Medical, Political Science