Private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of co-existence, segmentation and conflict.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Germany and Chile, substitutive private health insurance has been shaped by its co-existence with statutory social health insurance. Despite differences in the way choice is available to users in the health insurance regimes of Chile and Germany, the way in which each country has managed choice between private health insurance and statutory social health insurance provides a unique opportunity to comparatively assess the consequences of such an arrangement that has been previously underexamined.

Methods

We conducted a Most Similar Systems Design comparative policy analysis of the co-occurring private health insurance and statutory social health insurance systems in Germany and Chile. We describe and review the origins and development of the German and Chilean h

SUBMITTER: Roman-Urrestarazu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6091104 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature