Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Natalia N. Sisigina
Author-Email: sisiginann@mail.ru
Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow 119571, Russia
Title: Financing of Modern Health Insurance Systems
Abstract: The article deals with the development of financing mechanisms for health insurance systems since the second half of the 20th century. On the basis of the analysis of foreign countries experience the author shows that as state guarantees for free medical care are evolving compulsory health contributions role in the health financing structure is decreasing in favor of supplementary financial sources of funding. In the course of the research the author also highlights main supplementary financial sources, objectives and forms of their usage, mechanisms for stabilization of insurance financing.
Classification-JEL: I18
Keywords: budgetary funding, voluntary health insurance, compulsory health insurance, social insurance, health insurance model, health financing
Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal
Pages: 77-90
Issue: 1
Year: 2017
Month: February
File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2017/1/statii_1/fm_2017_1_06.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:170106:p:77-90