Relieve or Hollow Out

John Lapidus ()
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John Lapidus: University of Gothenburg

Chapter Chapter 8 in The Quest for a Divided Welfare State, 2019, pp 111-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract What happens to the universal welfare state when people start to buy private health insurance? The advocates of a divided welfare state argue that insurance relieves the public system, an argument that is widely spread in the media. In contrast, this chapter discusses the variety of factors that make the rapid rise of private health insurance erode the public welfare system. It is actually axiomatic that privatization and semi-privatization threaten the universal welfare system, but the newspeak-ish argument that private solutions relieve the public is made with such fervour that it has convinced parts of the population, especially policyholders who want to legitimize their insurance in a country where it can still be seen as something suspicious and odd.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24784-3_8

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