Market reforms in Swedish health care: a threat to or salvation for the universalistic welfare state?

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Abstract

This report presents the main characteristics of reforms in the Swedish health services, as exemplified by the "Stockholm Model" introduced in 1992 in Stockholm county. The author discusses the motives behind these reforms, the already-evident increases in costs that are occurring, and the effect of these reforms on public support for the welfare state.
Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Health Services
Volume23
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)185-8
Number of pages4
ISSN0020-7314
Publication statusPublished - 1993

Keywords

  • Budgets
  • Financing, Government
  • Forecasting
  • Health Policy
  • Humans
  • Models, Organizational
  • Privatization
  • Social Welfare
  • State Medicine
  • Sweden

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