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Title Two centuries of solidarity : German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008 / K.P. Companje [and others]
Published Amsterdam : Aksant, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series HIZ, History of healthcare insurance ; 3
HiZ-series history of healthcare insurance ; 3.
Contents Guilds and health-insurance funds : solidarity during the Ancien RĂ©gime -- The end of the guild system, 1789-1820 -- The birth of modern health-insurance funds -- Health insurance as a governmental responsibility, 1850-1914 -- War, peace, war, 1914-1945 -- Growth and its limits, 1945-2000 -- Social health insurance and neoliberal regulated market competition, 2000-2008 -- The art of mutual understanding : one concept in three countries
Summary Today, health insurance is a key component in the system of social security in most European Union countries. In many of these countries, modern health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers play an essential role in implementing the public health-insurance system. Many of these health-insurance funds have a long and fascinating history, of which clear traces can be seen today in the organisation and structure of health insurance, as well as health-insurance funds and insurers. In Two centuries of solidarity, the authors compare the systems of health insurance, health-insurance funds and heal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Health insurance -- Belgium
Health insurance -- Germany
Health insurance -- Netherlands
Social health maintenance organizations -- Belgium
Social health maintenance organizations -- Germany
Social health maintenance organizations -- Netherlands
Insurance.
History.
Health insurance.
National health insurance.
Humanities.
Economics.
Medical care.
Insurance
History
History, Modern 1601-
Insurance, Health
Humanities
Financing, Organized
Economics
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Delivery of Health Care
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
National Health Programs
Patient Care
insurance.
history (discipline)
humanities.
economics.
Humanities.
History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Health.
National health insurance
Medical care
Insurance
Humanities
History
Economics
Health insurance
Social health maintenance organizations
Belgium
Germany
Netherlands
Form Electronic book
Author Companje, K. P. (Karel-Peter), 1955-
Hendriks, R. H. M
Veraghtert, Karel, 1944-
Widdershoven, B. E. M. (Brigitte E. M.)
ISBN 9789048521289
9048521289