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Redistributive effects of Swedish health care finance

✍ Scribed by Ulf-G. Gerdtham; Gun Sundberg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
158 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-6753

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✦ Synopsis

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' segments for each of the four ®nancial sources. The data used are based on probability samples of the Swedish population, from the Level of Living Survey (LNU) from 1981 and 1991. The paper concludes that the Swedish health care ®nancing system is weakly progressive, although direct payments are regressive. There is some horizontal inequity and reranking', which mainly comes from the county council taxes, since those tax rates vary for each county council. The implication is that, to some extent, people with equal incomes are treated unequally.

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