Mathias Kifmann on “health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related?”

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. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Richter, Wolfram
Published in:	Public Choice. - Springer. - Vol. 130.2007, 1, p. 239-242
Publisher:	Springer
Subject:	Health insurance \| Income related premiums \| Constitutional perspective

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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