Financial risks of illness: a shared responsibility?:Solidarity and deservingness in health insurance and disability insurance in the Netherlands

Being sick costs money, but who is responsible for paying for it? For centuries, healthcare costs and health-related benefits have been funded by all residents. Since the nineteenth century, this has been arranged formally in social insurance schemes, which have been strongly reformed in the Netherlands since the 1980s. This dissertation found that such reforms have had different effects on solidarity. Where solidarity is limited on specific points in insurance policies that cover health-related loss of income and long-term care, in other cases curative care has been maintained or even expande... Mehr ...