Research Catalog

Title

Empowering health care consumers through tax reform / edited by Grace-Marie Arnett.

Author

Arnett, Grace-Marie.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xlix, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, policy experts, known as the Health Policy Consensus Group, explore the intersection of health and tax policy for solutions. These economists and other health policy advisers, business group and union representatives, physicians, and political leaders describe the distortions to the health care system caused by a 50-year-old provision in the tax code, and they paint their vision of a revived free-market system."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Health insurance > Government policy > United States
• United States
• Taxes
• Insurance, Health
• Health insurance > Taxation > United States

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held on Mar. 25, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• About the Consensus Group -- About the Galen Institute -- Preface: A Fair Health Insurance System / Jack Faris -- Introduction and Overview: Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform / Grace-Marie Arnett -- Ch. 1. The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance: Early History and Evidence, 1940-1970 / Robert B. Helms -- Ch. 2. What's Wrong with the Present System / Michael Tanner -- Ch. 3. High Anxiety: Working Families Need Market-Based Health Care Reform / Robert Emmet Moffit -- Ch. 4. An Efficient and Equitable Approach to Health Reform / Mark V. Pauly -- Ch. 5. A Better Subsidy for Health Insurance? / C. Eugene Steuerle and Gordon B. T. Mermin -- Ch. 6. Improving the System for Delivering Subsidies: Cap or Scrap the Exclusion? / John S. Hoff -- Ch. 7. Toward a Universal Marketplace for Health Care / David B. Kendall -- Ch. 8. Health Care Reform: Why Not Try Real Insurance? / Norman B. Ture and Stephen J. Entin --
• Ch. 9. Restructuring the Current Health Insurance Tax Subsidy to Cover the Uninsured / Kevin Vigilante, Christopher D'Arcy and Tammy Reina -- Ch. 10. Medical Savings Accounts: An Idea Whose Time Has Come / John C. Goodman -- Ch. 11. Promoting a Consumer-Driven Health Care System / Robert F. Bennett -- Ch. 12. The Role of a Universal Health Credit in Welfare and Tax Reform / Thomas E. Petri -- Ch. 13. The Workers' Right to Choose / Edward Ryan Moffit -- Ch. 14. Healing the Physician-Patient Relationship / Sewell H. Dixon -- App. B. A Vision for Consumer-Driven Health Care Reform / Health Policy Consensus Group -- App. C. Tax Reform: The Heart of Health Care Reform -- App. D. Petition on Health Policy Reform.

ISBN

• 0472097164 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0472067168 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99021949

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries