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Health insurance for the healthy? Voluntary health insurance in Sweden

Linn Kullberg, Paula Blomqvist and Ulrika Winblad

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 8, 737-746

Abstract: In Sweden, voluntary health insurance is held only by a very small part of the population, but uptake has grown rapidly since 2000. So far, little is known about who purchases this insurance and what the insurance plans contain.

Keywords: Voluntary health insurance; Sweden; Private healthcare; Access to healthcare; Health plans; Private health insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.06.004

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