This dissertation deals with the Czech and the German public health insurance system. The main aim is to analyze the public health insurance system in the Czech Republic and Germany and their comparison according to selected criterias. The dissertation is divided into four parts. In the first chapter there are briefly described various methods of financing health care. The content of the second chapter is the analysis of the German public health insurance system. This chapter also presents the basic characteristics of the German private health insurance. In the third chapter we can find the analysis of the Czech public health insurance system. An integral part of the second and the third chapter is the analysis of the income of the public health insurance system in 2005 - 2010. In chapter four there is a comparison of the two systems of public health insurance. Then individual parts are selected from the systems (the insured, the assessment basis, the insurance rate and income of the public health insurance) and they are compared according to selected quantitative and qualitative criterias.

5 Abstract Legal regulation of healthcare in the Czech Republic The subject matter of this thesis is legal analysis of provision of healthcare in the Czech Republic and outline of basic problems of provision of healthcare, including proposals for their possible solution and comparison with Supreme Court and Constitutional Court jurisprudence. The thesis deals not only with the specific legal regulations in which the provision of healthcare is regulated, but also with the interpretation of their content, as well as with the legal relations between the entities involved in the provision of healthcare. In addition, the thesis discusses the introduction of the electronization of healthcare, which has the potential to improve the healthcare system in the Czech Republic and make the provided healthcare better, cheaper and more accessible. The thesis is divided into five chapters, which are further subdivided into subchapters. The first chapter is about the basic sources of legal regulation of healthcare at international, European and national level. The second chapter deals with the methods of financing the provided healthcare with a particular emphasis on the public health insurance system in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, chapter three deals more closely with healthcare itself and with the interpretation of...

Die beiden Systemen wurden auf die ähnliche Tradition gegründet. Diese Tradition hat seine Wurzeln in Österreich-Ungarn, die bis 1918 in der gleichen Zwischenraum ausgesetzt wurden. Ein weiterer Zusammenhang ist die geographische Beziehung. Die Gesetztformen in der beiden Staaten sind unterschiedlich. In der Tschechische Republik gibt es viele Sozialversicherungsgesetze, in den der jede Typ des Versichertes geregelt ist. In Österreich gibt es für den jeden Type des Versichertes ein Sozialversicherungsgesetz. Die beiden Systemen sind die gesetzlichen öffentlichen Krankenversicherungen. Das tschechische System ist postkommunisch und Österreich ist der korporatische konservative Sozialstaat. Es gibt die Umverteilung in den beiden Systemen, aber in Österreich hat ein Unterschied, weil auch die Umverteilung in der Anstaltspflege enthält. Die vergleichende Systeme der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungen haben die gemeinsame ethische Grundsätze, die aber in Österreich mehr in den Gesetze geregelt werden. Dieser Fakt macht den Rahmen des Systemes der Krankenversicherung, das viel auf die Patienten sich konzetriert wird. Der Patient hat ein Recht auf aktive Beteiligung in diesem System und auch in der Behandlung. Ein großes Unterschied ist die Verfassungsschutz der Rechte im beiden Staaten. In Tschechien gibt es die...

Tyrimo objektas – Lietuvos privalomojo sveikatos draudimo sistema. Tyrimo dalykas – privalomasis sveikatos draudimas. Darbo tikslas – įvertinus Lietuvos privalomojo sveikatos draudimo sistemą nustatyti ir pateikti tobulinimo galimybes. Uždaviniai: išnagrinėti sveikatos draudimo teorinius aspektus, sukurti sveikatos draudimo sistemos įvertinimo metodiką, įvertinti Lietuvos sveikatos draudimo modelį, atlikus Privalomojo sveikatos draudimo fondo pajamų ir išlaidų analizę, nustatyti veiksnius, įtakojančius pajamų ir išlaidų kitimą, nustatyti Lietuvos sveikatos draudimo sistemos perspektyvas, pateikti pasiūlymus sveikatos draudimo sistemos tobulinimui. Iškeltai problemai tirti ir rezultatams gauti naudoti šie tyrimo metodai: specialiosios literatūros bendrieji moksliniai tyrimo metodai – literatūros analizė ir sintezė, loginė analizė ir sintezė, indukcija ir dedukcija, loginio ir grafinio modeliavimo metodai, daugiafaktorinė regresinė analizė, laiko eilutės prognozavimas naudojant statistines funkcijas TREND, LINEST ir GROWTH, LOGEST, laiko eilutės suglodinimas ir prognozavimas. Nagrinėjant Lietuvos autorių mokslinius straipsnius, periodinę spaudą, užsienio autorių mokslinius darbus apie sveikatos draudimo sistemą, atlikta Lietuvos privalomojo sveikatos draudimo sistemos analizė ir pateikti pasiūlymai jos tobulinimui. / Research object: Lithuanian compulsory health insurance system. Research subject: compulsory health insurance. Research aim: to evaluate the financing system of compulsory health insurance in Lithuania and to define the opportunity of improvement. Objectives: to analyse the theoretical aspects of health insurance and process of health insurance system in Lithuania, to delineate the government resources for health insurance, to value advantages and disadvantages of health care model, to analyse income and outcome of compulsory health insurance fund budget, to underline evidences which cause the fluctuation of incomings and expenses, to detect health insurance system prospects and to provide the recommendations for the improvement of Lithuanian compulsory health insurance system. For solving problems and research results are used these research methods: analysis and synthesis of literature, systemic analysis, logical analysis and synthesis, regression analysis, forecast calculations statistical function TREND, LINEST and GROWTH, LOGEST, methods of graphic and logical modeling. During doing the research of Lithuanian health insurance system, scientific articles by Lithuanian and foreign scientist were used to analyse Lithuanian health insurance system and to introduce the recommendations for its improvement.

The purpose of this thesis is an analysis of the issue of the public health insurance system in the Czech Republic as a system of funding of healthcare. In the beginning there is introduced a position of the health insurance system within the system of social security, definitions of terms and historical context of health insurance aspects in the Czech environment. Then the system of public health insurance is classified to models of funding of healthcare in the world and put into a contrast to other existing models of funding. A part of this thesis contains sources of law concerning this issue. There is an analysis of the issue of health insurance premium, the payers of the premium, the form and amount of the premium paid and the method of redistribution of the amounts collected. In another chapter there is presented the institutional background of the public health insurance system - the health insurance companies recently active in the Czech Republic, their role within the system, organizational structure and their economic activities. The main part of the thesis introduces the issue of health care, aspects of providing the health care, reimbursement of the health care to its providers and the position of these providers within the system. In the end there are described the effects on the health...

This thesis is aimed at learning selected aspects of the private health insurance system in OECD countries and its co-existence side by side with the public health insurance. Introductory chapters describe theoretic starting points and principles of functioning of the health insurance system in harmony with existing models of the healthcare policy. The analytical part of the thesis, using qualitative methods of investigation, deals with the development and the current state of the system of the health insurance in the Czech Republic from 1989 and characterizes briefly major problems being encountered and solved. Furthermore, the thesis maps trends of the health insurance in selected OECD countries, showing issues within the structure of healthcare system expenses in countries followed and their influence on the system of the health insurance. The thesis is also informing about present problems on the private health insurance market in OECD countries precisely as described in a study made by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The final chapter compares the mentioned health insurance systems from the point of view of co-payment and co-existence.

The master’s final work is written in Lithuanian language, consists of 77 Pages, 23 Figures, 16 Tables, 54 References, and 11 Appendixes. KEY Words: health insurance, health insurance system, compulsory health insurance, additional (voluntary) health insurance, health insurance Fund, Compulsory Health Insurance Fund Budget, health insurance payments, financing of health attendance, health attendance costs, efficiency. Research object: health insurance system. Research subject: health insurance. Research aim: after analyzing the theoretical and practical aspects of health insurance, to evaluate health insurance system in Lithuania, to foresee its perspectives and to provide the proposals for development. Objectives: to show the theoretical aspects of health insurance, to evaluate health system in Lithuania according to the chosen criterion (financing model, incomes, costs), to foresee the perspectives of health system and to provide the proposals for development. Research methods: analysis and synthesis of literature, logical analysis and synthesis, filing, comparison, vertical and horizontal analysis, simple linear regression and correlation, forecast calculations, diagrammatical representation of data. Health insurance system in Lithuania was analyzed and evaluated as well as the proposals for it’s development were presented by using scientific literature of foreign and Lithuanian authors, legislation, chronicles of statistics and electronic information sources.