Constraints on Universal Health Care in the Russian Federation: Inequality, Informality and the Failures of Mandatory Health Insurance Reforms

Cook, Linda J.

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“…Some have pursued creative policy innovation; some have stagnated. Some launched meaningful reforms immediately after the Soviet collapse; others have progressed only in the last two or three years (Balabanova et al 2011;Cook 2015;Merkur, Maresso, and McDaid 2015;Rechel et al 2012;Stepanovich 2018).…”

Section: How Health Systems Can and Do Combat Pandemicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

Laruelle

Alexseev

Buckley

et al. 2020

Problems of Post-Communism

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The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, but also reciprocal interactions between the pandemic and society, political economy, regime type, center-periphery relations, and international security. The Foucauldian concept of "biopolitics" holds out particular promise as a theoretical framework.

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Section: How Health Systems Can and Do Combat Pandemicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

Laruelle

Alexseev

Buckley

et al. 2020

Problems of Post-Communism

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“…Labour markets are both to be served, and compensated for, by social policy. 45 In this respect, the notion of decommodification derived from the WRA is unfit for purpose, failing to get to grips with the working poor (Iwata 2013)-for example, the formal/informal divide in work and, whether contributions from, and benefits to, the formal sectors are extended to the informal for social security in Indonesia (Suryahadi et al 2014), and for health in Russia (Cook 2013). There are issues relating to national and international migration, for social policy for China Wong (2013), together with urban/rural divides, most notably Mehrotra et al (2013) for social protection in India.…”

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The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

Fine¹

2017

Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractOne particular index of the systemic nature of the current crisis is the weaknesses of intellectual responses to the crisis and the inability, often self-confessed by orthodox thinkers and policy makers, to offer convincing or viable remedies. Unsurprisingly, this intellectual deficiency has primarily focused on the role of finance. But the intellectual weaknesses-especially as far as policy responses are concerned-run deeper and wider, covering (un)employment, industrial and housing policies, and so on. To a large extent, this reflects the debilitating influence of neoliberalism (looking at things in terms of a simple dichotomy between market and state, themselves simply conceived), the compromises with it, and the corresponding weaknesses of alternatives on offer prior to the crisis. These weak alternatives have swung between looking backwards to a Keynesian/interventionist renewal, and inventing alternative monikers for contemporary capitalism, such as post-Fordist or, more recently, the Cheshire-cat grinning knowledge economy.In this light, this paper examines critically what has been one of the most successful intellectual contributions to the neoliberal period, Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regimes Approach (WRA) to comparative social policy. The paper shows that the WRA has deep roots within the conditions of the post-war boom and, as a consequence, was already well past its "use by date" when it emerged in the 1990s, let alone over the subsequent two decades of neoliberalism that have been underpinned by financialization. A close examination of the literature on the WRA shows how it has suffered from being unable to account for the differences between countries and programmes and has neglected both the changing conditions associated with neoliberalism and the causal factors underpinning it, and the closer determination of social policies themselves. The paper offers similar commentary on other approaches to social policy, such as appeal to convergence, divergence or path dependence. To some degree, the study of social policy has become tired, having been used to addressing yet one more crisis of the welfare state as if all that is involved is another round of responses to neoliberal antipathy or straitened economic circumstances.With such analysis as critical point of departure-together with specification of financialization, its relationship to neoliberalism and their variegated influences over social ...

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“…As a result, an inequality in access to health care in terms of territorial factors is observed. Rural populations have less access to health care services and poorer overall health than urban populations (Cook, 2015). Along with rural-urban differences within regions, there are also two distinct dimensions of inequality that affect access to health care in Russia, at the household level and at the regional level.…”

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Social Health Insurance Reforms—Mid-Term Experiences of Poland and Russia

Borda¹,

Kowalczyk-Rólczyńska²,

Grishchenko³

2017

UCPA

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As a result of transition process to market economy, Poland and Russia have come a long way from a centrally planned budget for social security to an insurance-type model in the social sphere. After more than two decades of reforms, it seems essential to compare and evaluate the policy solutions introduced in terms of the reform goals achieved and exposure to current challenges. The paper presents an analysis and comparison of social health insurance reforms conducted in Poland and Russia since the beginning of the 1990s. Moreover, the current problems of and future challenges for health care financing systems are identified. The varied experiences of Poland and Russia over more than 20 years show mid-term lessons which could be useful to other countries, especially those that face socio-economic transformation, in their choice of strategy and the practice of similar reforms.

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Constraints on Universal Health Care in the Russian Federation: Inequality, Informality and the Failures of Mandatory Health Insurance Reforms

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

Social Health Insurance Reforms—Mid-Term Experiences of Poland and Russia

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