Basic Elements of Financing National Health Insurance,

Abstract

The basic policy issue to be resolved in choosing how to finance a national health insurance program is to decide how the total costs of health care will be distributed. Revenues sufficient to fund the program can be raised by prepayments, in the form of premiums and taxes, and by out-of-pocket payments made by patients. The principal factors that determine the distribution of total costs by income group are the extent to which payroll and income taxes, in contrast to premiums, are relied on to finance the prepaid component of total costs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032217

Entities

People

  • Bridger M. Mitchell

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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  • Budgets
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Corporations
  • Economic Analysis
  • Families (Human)
  • Finance
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • House Of Representatives
  • Insurance
  • Law
  • Social Security
  • Taxes
  • United States

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  • Medicine
  • Political science

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  • Government and Public Administration Law.
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