Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Redistributive effects of Swedish health care finance
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper investigates the redistributive effects of the Swedish health care financing system in 1980 and 1990 for four different financial sources: county council taxes, payroll taxes, direct payments and state grants. The redistributive effects are decomposed into vertical, horizontal and 'reranking' segments for each of the four financial sources. The data used are based on probability samples of the Swedish population, from the Level of Living Survey (LNU) from 1981 and 1991. The paper concludes that the Swedish health care financing system is weakly progressive, although direct payments are regressive. There is some horizontal inequity and 'reranking', which mainly comes from the county council taxes, since those tax rates vary for each county council. The implication is that, to some extent, people with equal incomes are treated unequally.
Publiceringsår
1998-12-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
289-306
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of Health Planning and Management
Volym
13
Issue
4
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Economics
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Nyckelord
- Equity
- Financing
- Health care
- Redistributive effects
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0749-6753