1992-12-01
Equity in the finance of health care: Some international comparisons
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Journal of Health Economics , Volume 11 - Issue 4 p. 361- 387
This paper presents the results of a ten-country comparative study of health care financing systems and their progressivity characteristics. It distinguishes between the tax-financed systems of Denmark, Portugal and the U.K., the social insurance systems of France, the Netherlands and Spain, and the predominantly private systems of Switzerland and the U.S. It concludes that tax-financed systems tend to be proportional or mildly progressive, that social insurance systems are regressive and that private systems are even more regressive. Out-of-pocket payments are in most countries an especially regressive means of raising health care revenues.
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doi.org/10.1016/0167-6296(92)90012-P, hdl.handle.net/1765/11462 | |
Journal of Health Economics | |
Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
Wagstaff, A., & van Doorslaer, E. (1992). Equity in the finance of health care: Some international comparisons. Journal of Health Economics, 11(4), 361–387. doi:10.1016/0167-6296(92)90012-P |