Mathias Kifmann on “health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?”

Wolfram Richter

Public Choice, 2007, vol. 130, issue 1, 239-242

Abstract: Many democracies have public health insurance systems that are tax-financed or in which contributions are linked to income. In a recent issue of this journal, Mathias Kifmann provides a model designed to explain this intriguing observation. This comment argues that the suggested explanation is not really convincing. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007

Keywords: Health insurance; Income related premiums; Constitutional perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9083-3

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