Strategic cost-shifting in long-term care. Evidence from the Netherlands
With the reform in 2015 of the system of long-term care (LTC) in the Netherlands, responsibilities for the provision of social support and assistance were delegated from the central government to the municipalities. Unintentionally, the way municipalities are financed created incentives to shift cost from the local level back to central level. In this paper we examine whether municipalities respond to the prevailing financial incentives by shifting costs to the public LTC insurance scheme. Using data on almost all Dutch municipalities over the period 2015–2019, we estimate that municipalities... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Alders , P & Schut , F T 2022 , ' Strategic cost-shifting in long-term care. Evidence from the Netherlands ' , Health Policy , vol. 126 , no. 1 , pp. 43-48 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.11.008 |
Schlagwörter: | /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being / name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26840024 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/3c25b2b1-875b-4624-884a-c522eeff7b46 |