Changes in the demand for private medica
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Marisol RodrΓguez; Alexandrina Stoyanova
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The 1998 Spanish reform of the Personal Income Tax eliminated the 15% deduction for private medical expenditures including payments on private health insurance (PHI) policies. To avoid an undesired increase in the demand for publicly funded health care, tax incentives to buy PHI were no