Bismarck meets Beveridge on the Silk Road: coordinating funding sources to create a universal health financing system in Kyrgyzstan

• Main Authors: Joseph Kutzin (Author), Ainura Ibraimova (Author), Melitta Jakab (Author), Sheila O'Dougherty (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: The World Health Organization, 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Options for health financing reform are often portrayed as a choice between general taxation (known as the Beveridge model) and social health insurance (known as the Bismarck model). Ten years of health financing reform in Kyrgyzstan, since the introduction of its compulsory health insurance fund in...