OECD countries have used a variety of mechanisms for subsidizing healthcare for more than a century. These include tax preferences, direct subsidies, mandated health insurance programs, government-financed single-payer systems, and direct provision of healthcare services. In most cases,...

Technological advance has been a primary driver of healthcare expenditures in the twentieth century and continues to be so. This paper models the electoral politics of government support for R&D. A forward-looking median voter has to take account of a wide variety of interdependencies even in a...

OECD countries have used a variety of mechanisms for subsidizing healthcare for more than a century. This paper demonstrates that an electoral model of healthcare policies can explain why various combinations of healthcare programs have been adopted and why they are modified through time. The...