{"id":987781881,"date":"1991-08-22T09:54:30","date_gmt":"1991-08-22T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=documents&#038;p=987781881"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:14:39","slug":"health-care-reform-act-1989","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/health-care-reform-act-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Reform Act 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the text-area where you can type your text. Add a paragraph to introduce the Document&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following extract from the article \u201cReform of Health Care in Germany\u201d in the <em>Health Care Financing Review <\/em>describes the Health Care Reform Act of 1989.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, following a jump in average contribution rates from about 11.5 percent to nearly 13 percent in the mid-1980s, which was a result both of rising unemployment and of further increases in expenditures, the government introduced a further bulky package of reforms in the Health Care Reform Act of 1989. This has been described as the most important statute on the statutory health insurance system since the Law of 1911 (<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4193657\/#b41-hcfr-12-3-73\">Schneider, 1990<\/a>). It was aimed both at cost containment and at financing some selected improvements to benefits.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following extract from the article \u201cReform of Health Care in Germany\u201d in the Health Care Financing Review describes the Health Care Reform Act of 1989. Finally, following a jump in average contribution rates from about 11.5 percent to nearly 13 percent in the mid-1980s, which was a result both of rising unemployment and of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123],"document_type":[2326],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987781881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987781881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987781881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987781901,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987781881\/revisions\/987781901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987781881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987781881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987781881"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987781881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}