Two Centuries of Solidarity
Titel
Two Centuries of Solidarity
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German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008
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€ 69,99
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9789048521289
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400
Taal
Engels
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History
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Two centuries of solidarity - 2 PREFACE - 6 CONTENTS - 8 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS - 14 TRANSLATIONS - 18 INTRODUCTION - 28 Chapter I GUILDS AND HEALTH-INSURANCE FUNDS: SOLIDARITY DURING THE ANCIEN RÉGIME - 36 Chapter II THE END OF THE GUILD SYSTEM, 1789-1820 - 46 Chapter III THE BIRTH OF MODERN HEALTH-INSURANCE FUNDS - 52 Chapter IV HEALTH INSURANCE AS A GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, 1850-1914 - 70 Chapter V WAR, PEACE, WAR, 1914-1945 - 132 Chapter VI GROWTH AND ITS LIMITS, 1945-2000 - 202 Chapter VII SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND NEOLIBERALREGULATED MARKET COMPETITION, 2000-2008 - 294 Chapter VIII THE ART OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING: ONE CONCEPT IN THREE COUNTRIES - 356 TABLES AND CHARTS - 382 BIBLIOGRAFIE - 384

Two Centuries of Solidarity

German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008

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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 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.
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