Expanding access and choice for health care consumers through tax reform

Health Affairs

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 45-57

  Butler, Stuart ^a   Kendall, David B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TAX; UNITED STATES;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCOME TAX; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE POOLS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, UNITED STATES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033218894     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.18.6.45     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See G.M. Arnett, ed., Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
2. J. Shells and P. Hogan, "Cost of Tax-Exempt Health Benefits in 1998," Health Affairs (March/April 1999): 176-181.
3. R. Atkinson and R. Court, The New Economy Index (Washington: Progressive Policy Institute, November, 1998), online at www.neweconomyindex.org.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Rep. John Shadegg, Patients' Health Care Choice Act of 1999,106th Congress, 1st sess.,H.R.1687.
7. Rep. Jim McDermott, Working Uninsured Tax Equity Act of 1999,106th Congress, 1st sess., H.R. 1819; and Rep. Pete Stark, Health Insurance for Americans Act of 1999, 106th Congress, 1st sess., H.R. 2185.
8. Rep. Jim McDermott, Working Uninsured Tax Equity Act of 1999,106th Congress, 1st sess., H.R. 1819; and Rep. Pete Stark, Health Insurance for Americans Act of 1999, 106th Congress, 1st sess., H.R. 2185.
9. Vice-President Al Gore, speech at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, 7 September 1999, available online at www.algore2000.com.
10. "Strategies for Incremental Expansion of Access to Care: Steps to Universal Coverage," Public Policy Paper no. 3 (Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1998); and Health Credit: Financing Health Insurance for All Americans (Arlington, Va.: National Association of Health Underwriters, 1999).
11. "Strategies for Incremental Expansion of Access to Care: Steps to Universal Coverage," Public Policy Paper no. 3 (Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1998); and Health Credit: Financing Health Insurance for All Americans (Arlington, Va.: National Association of Health Underwriters, 1999).
12. D.B. Kendall, "Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid: The First Step toward Universal Health Care," in Building the Bridge: 10 Big Ideas to Transform America, ed. W. Marshall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997), 72.
13. U.S. General Accounting Office, Private Health Insurance: Estimates of Expanded Tax Deducibility of Premiums for Individually Purchased Health Insurance, Pub. no. GAO/HEHS-98-190R (Washington: GAO, 1998).
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15. Sen. Don Nickles, Consumer Choice Health Security Act, 103d Cong., 1st sess., S. 1743; and M.V. Pauly et al., Responsible National Health Insurance (Washington: AEI Press, 1992).
16. Sen. Don Nickles, Consumer Choice Health Security Act, 103d Cong., 1st sess., S. 1743; and M.V. Pauly et al., Responsible National Health Insurance (Washington: AEI Press, 1992).
17. R. Shah and D. Goldman, "Universal and Customized Health Care Coverage" (Unpublished paper, Progressive Policy Institute, 1999).
18. M.S. Marquis and S.H. Long, "Worker Demand for Health Insurance in the Non-Group Market," Journal of Health Economics (14 May 1995): 47-63.
19. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, personal communication, 30 July 1999.
20. See, for example, K.E. Thorpe, "Changing the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance: Impacts on the Insured and Uninsured," in Severing the Link between Health Insurance and Employment, ed. D.L Salisbury (Washington: EBRI, 1999), 31-42.
21. Shells and Hogan, "Cost of Tax-Exempt Health Benefits," 178.