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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2020

Edited by
Sarah Thomson ,
Anna Sagan  and
Elias Mossialos
Assisted by
Jonathan North
Sarah Thomson
Affiliation:
WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening
Anna Sagan
Affiliation:
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Elias Mossialos
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Jonathan North
Affiliation:
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
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Chapter
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Private Health Insurance
History, Politics and Performance
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Boxes

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. List of Contributors

  6. 1Why private health insurance?

    Sarah Thomson, Anna Sagan, Elias Mossialos

  7. 2Private finance publicly subsidized: the case of Australian health insurance

    Jane Hall, Denzil G. Fiebig, Kees van Gool

  8. 3Private health insurance in Brazil, Egypt and India

    Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Noah Haber, Philipa Mladovsky, Emma Pitchforth, Wael Fayek Saleh, Flavia Mori Sarti

  9. 4Private health insurance in Canada

    Jeremiah Hurley, G. Emmanuel Guindon

  10. 5Regulating private health insurance: France’s attempt at getting it all

    Agnès Couffinhal, Carine Franc

  11. 6Statutory and private health insurance in Germany and Chile: two stories of coexistence and conflict

    Stefanie Ettelt, Andres Roman-Urrestarazu

  12. 7Uncovering the complex role of private health insurance in Ireland

    Brian Turner, Samantha Smith

  13. 8Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values

    Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Ruth Waitzberg

  14. 9Private health insurance in Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China

    Soonman Kwon, Naoki Ikegami, Yue-Chune Lee

  15. 10The role of private health insurance in financing health care in Kenya

    David Muthaka

  16. 11Private health insurance in the Netherlands

    Hans Maarse, Patrick Jeurissen

  17. 12The challenges of pursuing private health insurance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons from South Africa

    Di McIntyre, Heather McLeod

  18. 13Undermining risk pooling by individualizing benefits: the use of medical savings accounts in South Africa

    Heather McLeod, Di McIntyre

  19. 14Consumer-driven health insurance in Switzerland, where politics is governed by federalism and direct democracy

    Luca Crivelli

  20. 15Regression to the increasingly mean? Private health insurance in the United States of America

    Lawrence D. Brown, Sherry A. Glied

  21. 16Health savings accounts in the United States of America

    Sherry A. Glied, Dan P. Ly, Lawrence D. Brown

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