This chapter summarizes some of the principal differences and similarities. It focuses on
eight key areas: finance, provision, payment systems for hospitals and doctors, the supply of …

Health care cost containment is not in itself a sensible policy objective, because any
assessment of the appropriateness of health care expenditure in aggregate, as of that on …

First published in 1999, this volume aims to describe and analyse the experience of cost
containment in Europe over the last fifteen years in order to understand that experience and …

This chapter examines the most important health care sectors within the statutory health
insurance system. It deals with co-payments within this system and the private health …

This article gives a short summary of the organisation and financing of health services of the
12 Member States of the European Union. It then describes the latest developments in cost …

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD
countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. US health expenditures are …

Since 1977, cost containment has been an integral part of health policy in the Federal
Republic of Germany. The common goal of the cost-containment acts was to bring the …

As hospital inpatient care accounts for 30% of total health expenditure, and as health
expenditure will continue rising, due to ageing populations and costly technological …

This chapter examines whether the fact that European countries are tending to make their
health systems more similar, and that they have all faced a similar economic reality, is …

In this paper, we focus on those policy instruments with monetary incentives that are used to
contain public health expenditure in high-income countries. First, a schematic view of the …