The convergence of health care financing structures: empirical evidence from OECD-countries

摘要: The convergence/divergence of health care systems between countries is an interesting facet the system research from a macroeconomic perspective. In this paper, we concentrate on important dimension every system, namely financing (HCF). Based data 22 OECD in time period 1970–2005, use public ratio (public % total HCF) and per capita HCF as indicators for convergence. By applying different concepts convergence, find that converging. This conclusion also holds when look at smaller subgroups shorter periods. However, evidence do not move towards common mean rate convergence decreasing over time.