Abstract (eng)
The health insurance schemes conservative corporatist welfare states are changing. Reforms, which discribe this changes, are aimed primarily at correcting rising funding deficits. Germany and Austria are characterized by long development of a broadly similar social and economic framework conditions. With the introduction of competition under the statutory health insurance has competition corporatism as a control mechanism at the micro level gradually replaced. Collective contracts increasingly losing weight. Austria, however, is in the field of social health insurance by a compulsory insurance characterized. Implementation of competition is in relation to corporatist control insignificant, although the influence of the federal government in control of health-related topics becomes increasingly important.