Synopses & Reviews
The 1990s saw no progress in the financing of health care. About 40 million Americans still have no health insurance -- including 22 percent of America's children and 19 percent of young adults. What can be done? Mark V. Pauly and John S. Hoff answer with a tax credit/voucher system introduced in a common-sense way, with as much simplicity and flexibility as possible. The United States can launch such a program immediately and make needed adjustments along the way. The use of the credit assists people in obtaining insurance and provides tax equity. The authors chronicle changes in U.S. attitudes about health care and in the economic environment, tackle design issues, and consider policy tradeoffs and problems of the technicalities of such a program. They offer a sample tax-credit plan and respond to possible objections to their plan.
Synopsis
The authors chronicle changes in U.S. attitudes about health care and consider policy trade-offs and problems of a tax credit/voucher system to finance health insurance.