Funding Health Care: Options for Europe

Notes on contributors Series editors' preface Foreword Funding health care an introduction Financing health care taxation and the alternatives Social health insurance financing Health financing reforms in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Private health insurance and medical savings accounts theory and experience Voluntary health insurance in the European Union User charges for health care Informal health payments in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union issues, trends and policy implications Lessons on the sustainability of health care funding from low- and middle- income countries Funding long-term care the public and private options Strategic resource allocation and funding decisions Funding health care in Europe weighing up the options References Index.