This paper focuses on recent and significant health reform implemented in 2005, known as Universal Access with explicit guarantees (Acceso Universal con Garantias Explicitas - AUGE or GES), which mandated SHI insurers to adopt a broad benefits package defined via explicit legal guarantees for all beneficiaries. This innovative reform is a policy reaction to that which previously existed in Chile and which is widespread in many developing countries...
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2013/01/01
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Explicit health guarantees for Chileans : the AUGE benefits package
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benefit package
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Bitran Dicowsky,Ricardo A..
Explicit health guarantees for Chileans : the AUGE benefits package (English). Universal Health Coverage (UNICO) studies series ; no. 21 Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/308611468014981092