The State and Healthcare Comparing OECD Countries

by Rothgang, Heinz; Cacace, Mirella; Grimmeisen, Simone; Helmert, Uwe; Wendt, Claus

• ISBN13: 9780230005488
• ISBN10: 0230005489
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Since the 1970s the state has witnessed significant challenges to its control over social policy institutions in the arena of health care. Examining these changes in comparative perspective, this volume provides a quantitative overview of financing, regulation and service provision for 21 OECD countries, with an in-depth qualitative analysis of three cases -- the US, UK and Germany. The book argues that healthcare systems are converging towards mixed regimes and that this marks a new era in welfare state history.

Author Biography

Heinz Rothgang is at the Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen, Germany.

 

Mirella Cacace is at University of Bremen, Germany.

 

Simone Grimmeisen is at University of Bremen, Germany.

 

Uwe Helmert is at the Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen, Germany.

 

Claus Wendt is at the University of Bremen, Germany.

 

Stephan Leibfried is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xiv
Notes on the Authors	p. xvi
The Concept of the Study
Introduction to the Book	p. 3
Conceptual Framework of the Study	p. 10
Cross-Sectional Analyses
The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Financing	p. 25
The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Service Provision	p. 53
Case Studies
The Role of the State in the British Healthcare System-Between Marketization and Statism	p. 75
The Self-Regulatory German Healthcare System Between Growing Competition and State Hierarchy	p. 119
The US Healthcare System: Hierarchization With and Without the State	p. 180
Conclusion
The Converging Role of the State in OECD Healthcare Systems	p. 237
References	p. 248
Index	p. 275
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