Markets for Individual Health Insurance: Can We Make Them Work with Incentives to Purchase Insurance?

• প্রধান লেখক: Katherine Swartz (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: SAGE Publishing, 2001-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• বিষয়গুলি: article
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Simple income-based incentives to purchase health insurance (tax credits or deductions, or subsidies) are unlikely to succeed in significantly reducing the number of uninsured because income is not a good predictor of the extent to which individuals use medical service. Proposals to provide incentiv...