%0 Journal Article
%T The Financing Mechanism of the Social Health Insurance System in Romania and in other European Countries
%A Florina Oana VIRLANUTA
%A Constantin AFANASE
%J Annals of Dun£¿rea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics
%D 2010
%I Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
%X The social insurance system is part of the social security system and it works based on the payment of a contribution through which risks and services defined by the law are insured. The social security system, independent of the structure or political and economical order of a state, has the attribution of giving help to those in conditions of social helplessness, as well as preventing such circumstances. In this paper we made a comparative analysis of the financing mechanism of the social health insurance system in Romania with other European countries.
%K social health insurance
%K financing mechanism
%K social security system
%U http://www.ann.ugal.ro/eco/Doc2010/Virlanuta_Afanase.pdf