Empowering health care consumers through tax reform
By: edited by Grace-Marie Arnett.
Contributors: Arnett, Grace-Marie.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Insurance, Health -- Taxation -- United States; Insurance, Health -- Government policy -- United States
Description: In this book, the Health Policy Consensus Group explores the intersection of health and tax policy for solutions. These economists and health policy advisors, together with business 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.
Notes: Papers presented at the 1996 Galen Institute conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tax treatment of health insurance: early history and evidence, 1940-1970 / Robert B. Helms; title: What's wrong with the present system / Michael Tanner; title: High anxiety: working families need market-based health care reform / Robert Emmet Moffit; title: An efficient and equitable approach to health reform / Mark V. Pauly; title: A better subsidy for health insurance? / C. Eugene Steuerele and Gordon B.T. Mermin; title: Improving the system for delivering subsidies: cap or scrap the exclusion? / John S. Hoff; title: Toward a universal marketplace for health care / David B. Kendall; title: Health care reform: why not try real insurance / Norman B. Ture and Stephen J. Entin; title: Restructuring the current health insurance tax subsidy to cover the uninsured / Kevin Vigilante, Chrisoptpher D'Arcy and Tammy Reina; title: Medical saving accounts: an idea whose time has come / John C. Goodman; title: Promoting a consumer-driven health care system / Robert. F Bennett; title: The role of a universal health credit in welfare and tax reform / Thomas E. Petri; title: The workers' right to choose / Edward Ryan Moffit; title: Healing the physician-patient relationship / Sewell H. Dixon.