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Competitive Deficits in Statutory Health Insurance

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  • Klaus-Dirk Henke
  • Wolfram Richter

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In their commentary Klaus-Dirk Henke, TU Berlin and Wolfram Richter, TU Dortmund, identify serious deficits in competition in the German healthcare system. They investigate such deficits in statutory health insurance and name concrete deficits that need to be addressed by policy-makers.

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  • Klaus-Dirk Henke & Wolfram Richter, 2013. "Competitive Deficits in Statutory Health Insurance," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 66(04), pages 15-21, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:66:y:2013:i:04:p:15-21
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    1. Klaus-Dirk Henke & Wolfram Richter, 2009. "Zur Zukunft des Gesundheitsfonds," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 89(11), pages 727-732, November.
    2. Klaus Jacobs, 2013. "Gesundheitsfonds: Regelbindung für stabile GKV-Finanzen und sinnvollen Kassenwettbewerb," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(1), pages 24-27, January.
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    1. Coenen, Michael & Haucap, Justus, 2014. "Krankenkassen und Leistungserbringer als Wettbewerbsakteure," DICE Ordnungspolitische Perspektiven 54, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
    2. Leonard Münstermann, 2016. "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer wettbewerblichen Reform der Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung," Otto-Wolff-Institut Discussion Paper Series 01/2016, Otto-Wolff-Institut für Wirtschaftsordnung, Köln, Deutschland.

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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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