Einkommensabhängiger Zusatzbeitrag in der GKV: Verteilungs- und Anreizwirkungen

Stefan Fetzer () and Christian Hagist ()

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2014, vol. 94, issue 3, 203-209

Abstract: Since 2011 German health insurance funds have had to raise additional lump-sum contributions from members in case of insufficient allotment from the central health funds. The new German government plans to replace the lump-sum contributions with wage-related ones. Despite its contrary intentions, we argue that this reform would actually hurt poor members of health insurance funds and decrease their market power. Due to this reform and the well-known relationship between income and health, health insurances funds will increase their adverse competition for higher income households. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: I10; I13; I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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