A Study on Belgian National Health Insurance System

• Main Authors: Cheng-Wen Hsueh, 薛政文
• Other Authors: Mei-Ying Chao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96876166343359606387

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所碩士班 === 97 === As time goes by, the total social insurance expenses of most industrial countries over the world, have continuously increased owing to some of the following factors: the population structure changes, the extending of life expectancy, the lower birthrate, the higher medical expenses and the decrease of economy progress rate. And thus, facing a social insurance crisis, the social insurance reform was brought up: mainly towards to pension and health insurance system, in order to solve the financial burden. And Belgian National Health Insurance System is one of the most developed countries’ systems over the world: almost the entire population is protected; Moreover, over the past century, the Belgian federal government has the solutions to the system reform. Based on historical and document analysis, this study examined the effects of Belgian National Health Insurance (NHI) system reform for the data analysis. The major findings of this study are presented below: 1. the content and the development of Belgian NHI; 2. the system reform of Belgian NHI; 3. the limits of financial authority between all the related administrative organizations; 4. a comparison of Taiwan current NHI system and a specific suggestion. The result shows that, through the decentralization system and the principle of consensus, the Belgian NHI mechanism makes the health service providers and the insured the key factors to affect the medical policies procedure; and the discovery could be helpful to understand the ample idea of Belgian NHI system reform, furthermore, to stimulate the politicians towards a decent system reform scheme for Taiwan NHI.