Financing universal health care: Premiums or payroll taxes?

Hans Fehr and Maria Feldman

European Economic Review, 2024, vol. 166, issue C

Abstract: This paper presents a stochastic overlapping generations model with endogenous health investment to study the transition from the existing hybrid health insurance system in Germany towards a uniform system, financed by either funded or unfunded premiums or payroll taxes.

Keywords: Stochastic general equilibrium; Overlapping generations; Endogenous health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 D91 H55 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104755

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