Health Care Reform: Separating Insurance from Income Redistribution

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 445-461

  Breyer, Friedrich ^b   Haufler, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Health care finance; Income redistribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346622658     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008773103834     Document Type: Article

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