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Czech Healthcare Policy after 2010 in the Context of Heger's Reform
Řezníčková, Lucie ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Tušková, Eva (referee)
The diploma thesis "Czech Healthcare Policy after 2010 in the Context of Heger's Reform", deals with the significant institutional change that was implemented in Czech healthcare law during the right-wing government, which claimed its reforms were necessary in order to balance the budget. The aim of this work is to analyze the development of Czech healthcare policy in the period 2010-2013 with respect to the case of Heger's reform. This thesis uses different methods of analyzing the political process, for example methods of institutional analysis, critical discourse analysis, and other methods. The main theoretical basis of this work consists of a social critique of the neoliberal approach to Czech health care policy, and of a study of healthcare systems, their functions and goals, and a study of health policy and its changes. Attention is paid especially to the context of human rights related to health and the international discourse. This thesis identifies the arguments of neoliberal ideology in the policy-making of Czech healthcare policy makers in the process of justifying reforms. It evaluates the legitimacy of reform changes that don't accept the opinion of the public and don't respond to the international discourse, and investigates how the reform introduces new legal terminology which...
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The Introduction of Medicare and Medicaid Programs and First Experiences with Their Functioning (untill 1967)
Křivánek, Jan ; Tajovský, Ladislav (advisor) ; Johnson, Zdenka (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid programs and examines their functioning in 1966 and 1967. It summarizes the historical development of American health care until 1965 and notes the possible causes leading to the emergence of their specific market based healthcare. It shows a different view on healthcare solutions from representatives of the Republican and the Democratic parties. Detailed analysis of individual programs shows their shortcomings and possible problems. A key part of the thesis is the analysis of empirical data from 1964 to 1967. This part confirms the main hypothesis about the impossibility of self-financing in the first years of its operation. The charts illustrate the need for reform and the percentage changes in different types of healthcare costs. At the same time, it also points to the marginal cost of the programs in the context of the entire federal budget. It also shows the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid as a turning point and a starting point for the rise in total health spending in the US.
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Czech Healthcare Policy after 2010 in the Context of Heger's Reform
Řezníčková, Lucie ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Tušková, Eva (referee)
The diploma thesis "Czech Healthcare Policy after 2010 in the Context of Heger's Reform", deals with the significant institutional change that was implemented in Czech healthcare law during the right-wing government, which claimed its reforms were necessary in order to balance the budget. The aim of this work is to analyze the development of Czech healthcare policy in the period 2010-2013 with respect to the case of Heger's reform. This thesis uses different methods of analyzing the political process, for example methods of institutional analysis, critical discourse analysis, and other methods. The main theoretical basis of this work consists of a social critique of the neoliberal approach to Czech health care policy, and of a study of healthcare systems, their functions and goals, and a study of health policy and its changes. Attention is paid especially to the context of human rights related to health and the international discourse. This thesis identifies the arguments of neoliberal ideology in the policy-making of Czech healthcare policy makers in the process of justifying reforms. It evaluates the legitimacy of reform changes that don't accept the opinion of the public and don't respond to the international discourse, and investigates how the reform introduces new legal terminology which...
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The Comparison between Health Care Reform of W. Clinton and Health Care Reform of B. Obama
Čermáková, Zuzana ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Sehnálková, Jana (referee)
Bachelor thesis The Comparison between Health Care Reform of W. Clinton and Health Care Reform of B. Obama deals with the health care system of the United States of America. The aim is to explore the mechanisms for securing affordable health coverage of the reform proposals of the last two Democratic presidents of the USA, The National Health Security Act and The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite a lapse of more than fifteen years the goals of proposals were the same. Both presidents called for reducing the federal deficit and the number of uninsured Americans. Analysis of the bills shows there are many similarities in the mechanisms for ensuring health insurance. Even if President Obama adopted a more conservative approach than President Clinton, both reform proposals were based on the system of managed competition and on the state intervention.
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The Czech Republic's health care financing system from 1989 to 2015
Brečková, Lenka ; Lukášová, Tereza (advisor) ; Bartůsková, Lucia (referee)
The bachelor thesis follows up funding Czech health system from 1989 to 2015. The goal is to provide comprehensive survey of funding Czech health system. The evolution of health system is described in the teoretical part. It is focused on the transformation of health system in 1989 followed by comparsion selected concepts published over the years. The practical part is focused on current system status. The emphasis is placed on comparsion of private and public expenditures and even within the each healthcare field. The conclusion contains analysis confirming significant predominance public expenditures on health system, but there is noticeable rising ratio of private expenditures.
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Analysis of healthcare financing in the Czech republic with particular regard to assessment of reasons and impacts of introducing regulatory fees in the years 2008--2015
Matláková, Eliška ; Chmelová, Pavla (advisor) ; Lukášová, Tereza (referee)
The topic of this bachelor s thesis is healthcare financing in the Czech Republic. It predominantly focuses at the impact of regulatory fees introduced in 2008. The theoretical portion defines healthcare politics, its models as well as various ways of healthcare financing. The practical portion covers the issue that arose with the introduction of regulatory fees and especially aims at analyzing their impact at certain parameters of the healthcare market in the Czech Republic. The goal of this paper is to find out whether the aforementioned regulatory fees fulfilled their planned expectations, especially considering that the whole policy ended up being canceled seven years later. The analysis showed that its impacts were indeed positive and as predicted, which makes their cancellation questionable. This suggests that there must have been a different motive for the cancellation, because their effectiveness was demonstrable. The paper also contains a comparison to Slovakia, where regulatory fees were also introduced in the past and the development of their cancellation can be analogous in the Czech Republic. Analysis of certain parameters of the Slovakian healthcare market proved that the cancellation was not effective, because the observed parameters are slowly shifting back to their original values and the issue of healthcare overuse has also started reappearing.
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Analysis of the Health Insurance Systems in the Czech republic and United States and Their Comparision
Janega, Štěpán ; Ježek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hájek, Jan (referee)
Expenditures on health are currently an important and growing item of public as well as private budgets in the developed world. This diploma thesis analyzes two different approaches to the function of health insurance on the example of the Czech Republic and the United States of America. The theoretical part will generally characterize access to health care through different theories; there will be also introduced the system of health insurance and the agents on health care market. The specifics of the health care market will be also explained. The analytical part of the work will focus on health insurance systems in the Czech Republic and the United States and their development, with accent on major reforms of recent years. With mutual comparison of the two systems, thesis will examine the shortcomings of public health insurance and private health insurance, including the effectiveness of their removal. Afterwards, the analysis of selected indicators of health care will be provided. The aim of the work is an analysis of the different systems of health insurance in the Czech Republic and the United States with relationship to the recent reforms and evaluation of their mutual effectiveness.
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Analysis of the U.S. Health Care System
Kožušková, Kateřina ; Loužek, Marek (advisor) ; Durdisová, Jaroslava (referee)
The thesis is dealing with financial aspects of the U.S. health care system. The main reasons are excessively high costs and less beneficial outputs of the system compared to other developed countries. The topic is more than up to date especially with regard to the latest changes in American health care and the neverending discussion about the necessity of further reforms aiming especially at fiscal sustainability of the system.The introduction is devoted to a brief description of basic models of health care system. It also introduces the approach of the United States to health care and provides an overview of the structure and participants of American health care. Moreover, the thesis provides details about the latest reform of the system. The main objective of the thesis is analysis of main factors that contributes to high growth of health care costs. Technological development, consolidation of markets and ineffective setting of health care reimbursement are identified as some of the main contributors to high cost in the U.S. health care system.
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Comparative analysis of health care funding system in Czech Republic and Netherlands
Juřenčáková, Michaela ; Lechner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Krebs, Vojtěch (referee)
The thesis is focused on health care funding in Czech Republic. Comparative analysis confront current Czech health care system with effective one used in Netherlands. First part explains importance of health care activities in welfare state as a public interest priority that influence national economy. Second part presents positive and negative aspects of each type of health care system used abroad. Summary of all these fund sources, type of compensations and health care providers characteristics shapes a hypotetical effective system that can be implemented into a practice of universal health insurance system with detailed considaration of historical, political, legal and social aspects of Czech Republic. According to all these analysis I aim to recommend healt care system improvements that would enhance health care quality.
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