Prescription for health care policy: The case for retargeting tax subsidies to health care

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With health care delivery increasingly shaped by market and budgetary discipline, the provision of health care for all seems an ever-more-distant goal.The high cost of American health care is the inevitable by-product of its method of financing. Walter M. Cadette proposes shifting the tax subsidies to health care from the tax exclusion of employment-based health insurance to an income-scaled tax credit for the individual purchase of basic health insurance. This plan holds out promise of improving the operation of the health insurance market, making the labor market more efficient, reducing overall health care costs, and providing protection for the unemployed.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 0941276236
• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: Series: Public Policy Brief ; No. 30

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cadette, Walter M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
• (wo): Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• (wann): 1997

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54291
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ