Income Redistribution and Access to Innovations in Health Care

Maria Garcia-Alonso and Owen O'Donnell

Studies in Economics from School of Economics, University of Kent

Abstract: We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers whose income is reduced through the redistribution.

Keywords: Health care; Innovation; Income Redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 I1 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-06
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