Risk Pooling in Health Care Finance

Risk Pooling in Health Care Finance
Peter C. Smith and Sophie N. Witter
Centre for Health Economics
University of York
York YO10 5DD
United Kingdom

Report prepared for the World Bank Workshop
Resource Allocation and Purchasing in Health: Value for Money, Reaching the Poor
World Bank, Washington DC, May 14-15 2001

Revised November 2001

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The authors would like to thank Jack Langenbrunner, Maureen Lewis, Alex Preker and Paul
Shaw of the World Bank, Philip Davies of the World Health Organization, and participants at the workshop for comments.

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Contents
RISK POOLING IN HEALTH CARE FINANCE...............................................................................................................1
CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................................................................................1
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..........................................................................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................................................3

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WHY RISK POOLING IN HEALTH CARE FINANCE? ......................................................................................3

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APPROACHES TO RISK POOLING..........................................................................................................................7
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