Researchers from University of Gothenburg Report on Findings in Managed Care (Privatising, Liberalising and Dividing a Welfare State Without Affecting Universality? Debunking the Myths Surrounding the Rapid Rise of Private Health Insurance In …): Managed Care

2022 MAY 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Gothenburg, Sweden, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “The privatisation of provision and the emerging privatisation of funding, manifested in the rapid rise of private health insurance, are the most obvious signs that the universal, Swedish health system is gradually weakened.”

Financial support for this research came from Anna Ahrenberg Foundation.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Gothenburg, “Meanwhile, the private welfare industry creates a neoliberal Newspeak where the burdening effects of the private insurance system on public healthcare are said to be unburdening, and where every step away from the principles of a universal welfare model is said to be in line with the principles of a universal welfare model. The language spoken by the private welfare industry spills over into authorities, journalists and scholars.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “In this article, I discuss, problematise and partially reject two research questions - Does VHI unburden the public health care system? and Are VHI holders less supportive of funding public health care? - where the authors fail to place development in the context of increased inequality and declining tax ratio, and where they use the welfare industry’s definitions invented to blur the consequences of a parallel health system.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Privatising, Liberalising and Dividing a Welfare State Without Affecting Universality? Debunking the Myths Surrounding the Rapid Rise of Private Health Insurance In Sweden. Health Economics Policy and Law, 2022. Health Economics Policy and Law can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, Edinburgh Bldg, Shaftesbury Rd, CB2 8RU Cambridge, England.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting John Lapidus, University of Gothenburg, School of Business Economics & Law, Dept. of Economy and Society, Unit of Economic History, Box 625, Se-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413312200007X. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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