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Vertragswettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen / Double-sided Competition for the German Health Care Market

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  • Börsch-Supan Axel

    (Ph.D., Mannheim Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) Universität Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany)

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Germany spends more than 11% of GDP on health care - after the US and Switzerland the third most expensive system in the world. At the same time, healthy life expectancy is just about average among the OECD countries. This indicates that the German health care system suffers from inefficiency. Other OECD countries, notably Sweden, achieve much higher healthy life expectancies at considerably lower costs.

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  • Börsch-Supan Axel, 2007. "Vertragswettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen / Double-sided Competition for the German Health Care Market," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 227(5-6), pages 451-465, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:jns:jbstat:v:227:y:2007:i:5-6:p:451-465
    DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2007-5-604
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    2. Max Wolf, 2002. "Zur Effizienz des deutschen Gesundheitssystems," MEA discussion paper series 02026, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
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