Sharing Health Care Costs: International Seminar, Held at Wolfsberg, Switzerland on March 20-23, 1979

摘要

The purposes of this seminar were: (1) to review present experience on the development of health care costs, financing, the role of health insurance and institutional relationships between public and private health insurance policies: (2) to compare the expectations of individuals as consumers versus payers of health care services; (3) to attempt to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing policies on the growth and development of the cost of health care services; (4) to suggest ways of improving consumer participation in the decision-making process at the policy level; and (5) to discuss alternative possible new patterns of providing health insurance.