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The political economy of health care finance
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- We present a model of political competition, in a multi-dimensional policy space and with policy-oriented candidates, to analyze the problem of health care finance. In our model, health care is either financed publicly (by means of general taxation) or privately (by means of a copayment). The extent of these two components (as well as the overall tax schedule) is the outcome of the process of political competition. Our results highlight, from a political-economy perspective, the key role of technological change in explaining the widely observed phenomenon, in advanced democracies, of a rising share of total economic resources spent on health.
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Notes :
- English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1130587216
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource