UNIVERSAL COVERAGE - BUILDING ON MEDICARE AND EMPLOYER FINANCING
Publication Date
1994
Journal or Book Title
HEALTH AFFAIRS
Abstract
Universal coverage requires a strategy to sever the link between insurance coverage and employment in order to build a more stable insurance base. Universality also will require subsidies to make coverage affordable. Given these realities, the authors evaluate different financing proposals— employer and individual premium mandates and taxes—in terms of equity, affordability, and administrative and political criteria. An expansion of Medicare offers an insurance alternative that takes advantage of existing administrative structures of national scope.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.13.2.7
Pages
7-20
Volume
13
Issue
2
Recommended Citation
DAVIS, K and SCHOEN, C, "UNIVERSAL COVERAGE - BUILDING ON MEDICARE AND EMPLOYER FINANCING" (1994). HEALTH AFFAIRS. 59.
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.13.2.7