Is there Health Insurance in Greece outside EOPYY? Feasibility analysis of creating an independent, private Health Fund for Employees of the Banking Sector

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Published: Apr 13, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.8926
Keywords:
Health insurance health policy merging of health insurance funds sustainability of health insurance health expenditures
Kyriakos Souliotis Souliotis
University of Peloponnese
Petros Tsantilas
University of Peloponnese
Xenophon Contiades
University of Peloponnese
Abstract
Τhe funding impasse and the operational malfunction of the new organization (EOPOYY) in 2011 necessitated the provision for an exemption from this rule, applicable to health insurance funds which could prove their sustainability outside EOPYY. The objective of this paper is to assess the feasibility and viability of the creation of an independent health insurance fund for
employees of the banking sector, which would operate as a private entity and would not burden the state budget with its deficits. The paper aims to develop a paradigm for further analyses as we move towards the establishment of a new, national, health insurance structure.
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Author Biographies
Kyriakos Souliotis Souliotis, University of Peloponnese
Kyriakos Souliotis is Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Peloponnese. He also teaches health policy and health economics at the Medical School, University of Athens and the Medical School, University of Crete. He has acted as Head of Human Resources Management at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Chief Planning Officer at the Mutual Health Fund of the National Bank of Greece Personnel, President of OPAD (Health Care Organization for Public Servants) and Vice President of EOPYY (National Organisation for Health Care Services Provision). He has published 21 books and more than 100 chapters in books and papers in peer reviewed journals on health policy and economics, organization and administration of health services, economic inequalities, etc. He has participated as speaker in
over 200 scientific conferences and he is acting as reviewer for several international journals. ADDRESS: Center for Health Services Research, Medical School, University of Athens. Address: 25, Alexandroupoleos st., 11527 Athens, Greece. Email: soulioti@hol.gr
Petros Tsantilas, University of Peloponnese
Dr. Petros Tsantilas is a Member of the Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) and an Attorney at the Supreme Court. He has a Law degree (University of Athens), a Master degree on Social Security (University of Geneva) and a Master degree on Labour and Trade Union law (University of Paris X-Nanterre), and a Ph.D. on Social Security law (University of Paris X-Nanterre). He teaches Labour, Social Security and Health Law at the University of Peloponnese and at the National School of Public Administration. He is the author of legal books, articles and reports on health
and social law. He speaks greek, english, french and italian. E-mail: tsantilas.p@dsa.gr
Xenophon Contiades, University of Peloponnese
Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public and Social Law and Dean of the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Peloponnese. He is Managing Director of the Centre for European Constitutional Law – Themistocles & Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation (CECL) and member of the Scientific Council of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Sciences (Hagen-Germany). His writings include twenty books and approximately one hundred articles in Greek, English, German and Italian journals and volumes. Recent Publications: Constitutions
in the global financial crisis. A comparative analysis, X .I. Contiades (Ed.), Ashgate, 2013, Engineering Constitutional Change. A Comparative Perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA, X .I. Contiades (Ed.), Routledge, 2012. E-mail: xcontiades@hotmail.com
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