Choice of employer

The survey does not seem a good fit for Norwegian conditions. It seems to carry the assumption that private health care insurance matters in some way.

In Norway, insurance companies have tried selling private health insurance, but have often had to pay back the money to the policy holders because they have been unable to provide better service than the uninsured gets.

At the moment, the only health care insurance really sold is a) travel insurance, and b) insurance to businesses to get key personnel treated immediately.

Every resident in Norway have fundamental health care rights that are comparable to very expensive health insurance in the US. The average citizen outside of the health care industry probably do not understand the concept of health care insurance, and will most likely flat-out disbelieve you if try to explain it.

Thank you very much for your responce!

I know about fundamental health care rights. But you may also know, how long people have to wait for medical treatment in some cases in public hospitals, and private health insurance may help reducing this waiting time.

Anyway, it is not me, who conducts the study and supervise it, I am just asking to help my friend with her survey data. Probably, her supervisor knows, how relevant it is. She is studing at the University of Oslo, Master of Sceince in Health Economics program.

You can look up the waiting times for common procedures at:

http://www.frittsykehusvalg.no/start/

Since you are entitled to use whichever hospital you want and have the trip covered, only the shortest wait time you can find will normally matter.

Some people do chose to pay out of pocket to jump queues for minor matters. But my point is, the concept that your employer should be responsible for this is deeply alien.

(Possibly excepting people who work for private hospitals)

Thank you very much for your opinion and the link!

I do not think that the employer should be responsible for that myself, but some people consider it as an incentive anyway.

The previous link has expired. So I am still waiting for some more answers here:
http://cs.createsurvey.com/c/72/6272/su … h0LIa.html

It became a bit shorter, so will take even less time.

Thank you very much in advance!

Gnarl wrote:

It seems to carry the assumption that private health care insurance matters in some way.

A member of my girlfriend's family is seriously ill with terminal lung and brain cancer. The only reason it was detected was because the family insisted on an examination at a private hospital using their mother's insurance.

I think it would also cover you for overseas trips as well.