Is public health insurance an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Dominique Henriet and Jean Rochet

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2006, issue 83-84, 61-88

Abstract: The share of the public sector in health insurance provision varies enormously from country to country. It is larger in more redistributive countries. We provide a possible theoretical explanation for these facts: a public health insurance system, financed by taxes, can be an efficient means of redistribution, complementary to income taxation. This relies on the assumption of a negative correlation between income and morbidity. We examine the empirical validity of this assumption on macro data.

Date: 2006
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Working Paper: Is Public Health Insurance an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution (1998)
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