This paper investigates the redistributive eects of the Swedish health care ®nancing system in 1980 and 1990 for four dierent ®nancial sources: county council taxes, payroll taxes, direct payments and state grants. The redistributive eects are decomposed into vertical, horizontal and `reranking' seg
Redistributive effects in public health care financing
✍ Scribed by Ivonne Honekamp; Daniel Possenriede
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1618-7598
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