Is Public Health Insurance an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution

Dominique Henriet and Jean Rochet

Working Papers from Toulouse - GREMAQ

Abstract: The shares 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 both on macro and micro data.

Keywords: PUBLIC EXPENDITURES; INSURANCE; HEALTH; INCOME REDISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 G22 H51 I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 1998
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