The distribution of health care financing in the overall population and among the elderly |
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| Authors: | Barbara Wolfe Peter Gottschalk |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706 Madison, Wisconsin;(2) Department of Economics, Boston College, 02167 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | This paper focuses on the distribution of health care costs among the elderly. Four revenue sources are considered: income taxes, payroll taxes, user fees, and insurance premiums. The empirical work shows that the heavy reliance on direct payments as a means of collecting revenues among the elderly makes their contribution to the health care financing structure more regressive than for the nonelderly. |
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| Keywords: | elderly direct payment taxation premiums |
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