Voucher schemes - threat or opportunity for the Czech Healthcare sector
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | New Economic Challanges. 1st international PhD students conference |
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| Field | Economy |
| Keywords | Healthcare system; vouchers schemes; healthcare markets |
| Description | Healthcare markets are traditionally perceived as an arena characteristic by the "rationalized" state regulations which aim mostly to fulfil four key goals of healthcare systems: equity, efficiency, effectiveness and patient satisfactions. Typically, for doing so, both the supply and the demand sides can be regulated. Vouchers schemes can be seen as those instruments stimulating the demand side; it means that the purchase power is transferred to the client. The aim of the contribution is to find out whether vouchers schemes could be beneficial to the Czech healthcare system. The authors presume that vouchers implementation in the Czech healthcare system represents more threats that opportunities. There is a risk of fiscal illusion which could cause the implementation deficit too. |