(DOWNLOAD) "Health Care Reform in Germany (Essay)" by German Policy Studies ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Health Care Reform in Germany (Essay)
- Author : German Policy Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 297 KB
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1 Introduction The German health care system is undergoing a process of fundamental change affecting both its care structures and its financial and regulatory mechanisms. This transformation is an expression of a paradigm change in health policy initiated during the first half of the 1990s. At the heart of the transformation is the implementation of competition--centered structural reforms designed to establish a regulated market in the health service and help modernize structures of medical provision that had come to be regarded as inefficient. These reforms have been accompanied by a progressive privatization of treatment costs. This paradigm change in health policy increasingly favors the goal of adapting the health care system to the perceived requirements of a globalized economy at the expense of the aim of covering the social life--risk of "sickness". Since it began, health policy has proceeded down that chosen development path, generally by means of incremental reforms.
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