This paper applies a new methodology to decompose the overall redistributive effect (RE) of health care finance on income distribution. Contrary to most previous studies, the RE of various financing schemes are disentangled and estimated as sample statistics to reveal the vertical and horizontal...

Income-related inequalities and horizontal inequity in health-care utilisation have recently been widely studied using linear additive models of decomposition. This paper applies new methods of decomposition by factors, based on microsimulation technique. Besides avoiding the unavoidable price...