Health, autonomic financing and transferences

• Main Author: David Cantarero Prieto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AECR 2002-01-01
• Series: Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
• Subjects: health decentralization; autonomous communities financing; coordination
• Online Access: http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2010/2/03_Cantarero.pdf

The present paper has as objective to study the whole relative problem to the autonomous communities and regional heath care expenditure financing in Spain. This article has a dual purpose. First, the financing of the current health care attendance is approached in the Spanish regions passing magazine to its possible variants and we observe that the balance of our system is clearly inclined towards the side of the integration in the general pattern of financing («Fiscal Room») with specific conditions («Mixed System»). Secondly, we examine the new situation in the mark of health care and its corresponding financing in the new model approved in 2001, in terms of the effects of tax assignment on autonomous communities.