Tax Subsidies for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage : Selected Policy Issues for the 108th Congress.
Summarizes factors affecting the cost-effectiveness of tax subsidies to expand health insurance coverage for the medically uninsured. Examines the rationale for Government intervention in the health insurance market. Reviews important considerations in designing tax incentives to expand health insur...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | U.S. Congressional Research.
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| Summary: | Summarizes factors affecting the cost-effectiveness of tax subsidies to expand health insurance coverage for the medically uninsured. Examines the rationale for Government intervention in the health insurance market. Reviews important considerations in designing tax incentives to expand health insurance coverage, including current Federal tax subsidies for health insurance and relevant characteristics of the non-elderly uninsured population and the health insurance market for the non-elderly. Analyzes potential effectiveness and cost of proposed tax subsidies to expand health insurance coverage, including findings of recent studies. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |