title: Is health insurance in Greece in need of reform?
abstract: This paper aims to assess the relationship between insurance contributions and health benefits in Greece by using information from sickness funds' accounts. The paper argues that the fragmentation of social health insurance, and the particular ways in which sickness funds' financial services are organized, are a major source of inequity and are grossly inefficient. The survival of these systems in the 1990s cannot be explained except on grounds of inertia and corporate resistance.
authors: London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Matsaganis
mesh_terms: D005376:Financial Management; D006115:Greece; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006300:Health Services Misuse / Q000191:economics; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D012044:Regression Analysis