Subsidies to employee health insurance premiums and the health insurance market
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Subsidies to employee health insurance premiums and the health insurance market.
One approach to covering the uninsured that is frequently advocated by policy-makers is subsidizing the employee portion of employer-provided health insurance premiums. But, since the vast majority of those offered employer-provided health insurance already take it up, such an approach is only appealing if there is a very high takeup elasticity among those who are offered and uninsured. Moreove...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.08.004