Long-term care insurance in the Netherlands

Frederik T. Schut; Bernard van den Berg

doi:10.1057/9780230349193_7

Long-term care insurance in the Netherlands

Frederik T. Schut
, Bernard van den Berg

Health Systems and Insurance (HSI)

University of York

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Abstract

The Netherlands was the first country to introduce a universal mandatory social health insurance scheme (AWBZ) for covering a broad range of long-term care (LTC) services provided in a variety of care settings. Compared with most other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, coverage of LTC services is relatively comprehensive. This comprehensive coverage might explain why, in comparison with most other OECD countries, both total and public expenditure on LTC in the Netherlands are high, particularly since the percentage of elderly is similar to the OECD average (OECD, 2005). This can at least partly be explained by the relatively generous social health insurance scheme.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Financing Long-Term Care in Europe
Subtitle of host publication	Institutions, Markets and Models
Editors	Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	103-124
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9780230349193
ISBN (Print)	9780230249462, 9781349320790
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349193_7
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2011

Bibliographical note

© 2012 Frederik T. Schut and Bernard van den Berg

previous draft of this chapter was presented at the 7th World Congress of the international Health Economics Association (iHEA) in Beijing and at the International Conference on the Policies and Regulations of Health and Long-term Care Costs of the Elderly in Tokyo.

Part of this research has been supported by a research grant to Hitotsubashi University from the Ministry of Education of Japan (grant number 18002001)

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