Does the Incidence of Group Health Insurance Fall on Individual Workers?
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- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
- Vol. 1 (3-4) , 227-247
Abstract
Economic models predict that the cost of health insurance is borne by workers. In this paper we ask two questions. First, is cost shifting individual-specific: does a worker with higher expected...Keywords
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