Titlebook: Regulation of Health: Case Studies of Sweden and Switzerland; Peter Zweifel,Carl Hampus Lyttkens,Lars Söderström Book 1998 Kluwer Academic

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Price Setting for Doctors,yees. In Switzerland physicians operate their own private businesses. Revenue is regulated on a fee-for-service basis. This discrepancy allows us to compare the effects of two payment schemes, which have been discussed widely in the health economics literature.. On the one hand, we observe fixed pre

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Licensing of Firms and Institutions,h care on equal terms for the entire population”(2§, Swedish Health Care Act 1982). The responsibility for organizing health care lies with the county councils. as producers, providers, and financiers of the health care. This results in decentralized decisionmaking, with county councils acting accor

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Reimbursement of Hospital Services and Hospital Financing, the Swiss and the Swedish hospital systems in many ways, we have to use a model which allows us to analyze systems which are more or less competitive. Therefore, we will base our investigation of the transformation of the Swedish and Swiss hospital regulation on a model presented by Ma (1994), whic

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Incentives for Diffusion of New Health Care Technology,penditures on health care and the GNP. There is a number of reasons why this is the case. One of them is the unfettered diffusion of modern medical technologies, which has led to increased access to new technologies and increased cost. Extensive diffusion has also led to duplication of facilities, u

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Programs for the Aged in Sweden and in Switzerland,e to the understanding and the efficiency of different ways of satisfying people’s needs in this later period of life as well as to the way in which their behavior can be influenced. Before attempting to analyze the Swedish and the Swiss system we would like to outline some aspects of aging that are

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Taxes, Premiums, User Charges: Financing from the Point of View of Consumers,the effects of financing on cost, incentives, equity in financing, and equality of access to health care in the two countries. Arguments proffered to justify public intervention are, uneven income distribution over the life cycle, uncertainty about the need for health care and its cost, and external

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,Differences in Taxation and Regulation of Health-Affecting Goods — Alcohol and Tobacco,cial and economic problems for the individual and society. These are the main reasons why the supply and demand of these goods are being subjected to governmental interference; with disincentives for their consumption.