Can European Countries Improve Sustainability of Health Care Financing through Patient Cost-Sharing?

Front Public Health. 2015 Aug 12:3:196. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00196. eCollection 2015.

¹ Department of Health Economics and Social Security, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum , Krakow , Poland.
² Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands.
³ Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands ; Top Institute for Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands.

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Keywords: Europe; health care financing; patient cost-sharing; sustainable health care; value-based cost-sharing.