Christlich-demokratische Partei

• The Private Health Insurance: Demarketization of a Welfare Market?

This article examines to what extent the German private health insurance (PHI) is undergoing a process of "demarketization". Whereas newly established welfare markets (e.g. in the field of pension, long-term care, health care, labor market etc.) can be regarded as a result of "marketization", the substitutive PHI looks back on a centennial tradition as the market-based counterpart of the statutory health insurance (SHI). Even though the PHI generally assures a high level of insurance protection, the market-based organization of this insurance led to an increase in socio-political regulations in the past two decades. These social liabilities did not transform the PHI business model radically. Nevertheless, an incremental transformation as well as a partial convergence is taking place bet...

... Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) were always loyal allies, when it comes to d...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 5 Nr. 1, Januar 2009

• The private health insurance: demarketization of a welfare market?

... Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) were always loyal allies, when it comes to d...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 5 Nr. 1, März 2009

• Zulauf Für Rechtspopulist Wilders

...Bei Wahlen würde Wilders' Partei für die Freiheit (PVV) nach Angaben des Instituts...

• Die Tageszeitung; Berlin
• 4. September 2009