Surveys suggest that over the past five to ten years, the amount of health insurance
premiums collected has grown at an average rate of 34 percent in India and 43 percent in …

Since 1990, the social and economic policies of the transition countries of central and
eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia have diverged, including the way they have …

Funding access to health care through social health insurance has its origins in Germany in
the nineteenth century. The earliest versions of health insurance developed without any …

Croatia continues to face a health-funding crisis. A recent supplemental health insurance
law increases revenues through first increasing co-payments, then raising the payroll tax to …

In the context of global efforts to move towards universal coverage in health systems, this
report reviews health financing reforms in the Republic of Moldova and looks in particular at …

All people have a right to health. In poor countries, the challenge is to finance systems that
will deliver that right. After 20 years of one failed health financing mechanism–user fees …

In this chapter, we focus on two private mechanisms for funding health care–private health
insurance and medical savings accounts. We refer specifically to countries outside the …

This paper describes and analyzes the new insurance model of 2006 and its origins in the
earlier reform efforts of the 1980s and 1990s. The paper starts with some of the particular …

In 1995, a National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) was enacted in Israel. It specified a
mandatory package of services to be provided by the four competing private non-profit …

Financing national health insurance is a topic that has been discussed for a long time in the
United States. It is also of relevance for less developed countries, in particular in the Far East …