Chile health insurance issues : old age and catastrophic health costs /
The study offers an analytic approach to fundamental questions concerning the effect of the aging population on the Chilean health system, and, to the prospects for, and the extent of financing health care for the elderly, as presumably catastrophic costs are linked to this effect. However, the stud...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
2000
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| Series: | A World Bank country study
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| Online Access: | Banco Mundial |
Table of Contents:
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1. Analytic approach
- Methodological issues
- 2. Principal features of the chilean health care system
- 3. Elderly care and the effects of againg of the population on health care costs
- Health insurance for the elderly in Chile: coverage, net cost, and migration between insurers
- What are the financial implications of the aging of the population for FONASA?
- 4. Catastrophic costs
- What is catastrophic?
- Applying the various definitions to the case of Chile
- Concluding observations
- 5. Financing elderly and catastrophic health care
- Recent public programs
- Proposals developed but not yet implemented
- Other potential mechanisms for dealing with catastrophic and elderly care
- 6. Bibliography.