wettbewerbsstarkungsgesetz

• Health Care Reform in Germany

German health care policy is characterized by a paradigm shift initiated by the enactment of the Health Care Structure Act in 1992. This fundamental change is both affecting in 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. This paradigm change in health policy increasingly favours the goal of adapting the health care system to the perceived requirements of a globalised 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. In terms of care structures the paradigm change involves modernization and ration...

... Act (GKV-Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz) that came into effect in April 2007 now provides ...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

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

... Strengthening Act (Wettbewerbsstarkungsgesetz, WSG) of 2007 intervened again in the relationship...

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

• 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...

... Strengthening Act (Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz, WSG) of 2007 intervened again in the relationship...

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

• Health care reform in Germany.

... Act (GKV--Wettbewerbsstarkungsgesetz) that came into effect in April 2007 now provides ...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, März 2010