Markets for Individual Health Insurance: Can We Make Them Work with Incentives to Purchase Insurance?
Simple income-based incentives to purchase health insurance (tax credits or deductions, or subsidies) are unlikely to succeed in significantly reducing the number of uninsured because income is not a good predictor of the extent to which individuals use medical service. Proposals to provide incentiv...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2001-05-01
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| Series: | Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_38.2.133 |