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Mathias Kifmann on “health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?” |
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| Authors: | Wolfram F Richter |
| Institution: | 1. University of Dortmund, CESifo, Munich, Germany 2. IZA, Bonn, Germany 3. Department of Economics, University of Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany |
| Abstract: | Many democracies have public health insurance systems that are tax-financed or in which contributions are linked to income. In a recent issue of this journal, Mathias Kifmann provides a model designed to explain this intriguing observation. This comment argues that the suggested explanation is not really convincing. |
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