Two Centuries of Solidarity : : German, Belgian and Dutch social health insurance 1770-2008 / / B.E.M. Widdershoven, R.H.M. Hendriks, K.P. Companje, K.F.E. Veraghtert.

Today, health insurance is a key component in the system of social security in most European Union countries. In many of these countries, modern health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers play an essential role in implementing the public health-insurance system. Many of these health-insurance fu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:History of Healthcare Insurance ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Translations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. Guilds and sickness funds. Solidarity during the Ancien Régime
  • Chapter II. The end of the guild system, 1789-1820
  • Chapter III. The birth of modern social health insurance
  • Chapter IV. Health insurance as a governmental responsibility, 1850-1914
  • Chapter V. War, peace, war, 1914-1945
  • Chapter VI. Growth and its limits, 1945-2000
  • Chapter VII. Social health insurance and neoliberal regulated market competition, 2000-2008
  • Chapter VIII. The art of mutual understanding: one concept in three countries
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Tables And Charts
  • Bibliography