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Using taxes to reform health insurance : pitfalls and promises / Henry J. Aaron and Leonard E. Burman, editors.

Title
  1. Using taxes to reform health insurance : pitfalls and promises / Henry J. Aaron and Leonard E. Burman, editors.
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  1. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Aaron, Henry J.
  2. Burman, Leonard
  3. Urban Institute.
  4. Brookings Institution.
Description
  1. vii, 282 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Examines the role that taxes currently play, the likely effects of recently introduced health savings accounts, the challenges of administering major subsidies for health insurance through the tax system, and options for using the tax system to expand health insurance coverage"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  1. Health Care Reform > economics
  2. Taxes > economics
  3. Insurance, Health > economics
  4. Health insurance > United States
  5. Taxation > United States
  6. National Health Insurance, United States
  7. United States
Contents
  1. Tax policy and the history of the health insurance industry / Robert B. Helms -- The tax code, employer sponsored insurance, and the distribution of tax subsidies / Leonard E. Burman, Bowen Garrett, and Surachai Khitatrakun -- Health savings accounts : recent trends and potential effects on coverage and health insurance markets / Lisa Clemans-Cope -- What's in a name? Are health savings accounts really health savings accounts? / Henry J. Aaron, Patrick Healy, and Surachai Khitatrakun -- Tax subsidies for out-of-pocket health care costs / Jessica Vistnes, William Jack, and Arik Levinson -- Administrative issues : challenges of the current system / Mary B.H. Hevener and Charles K. "Chip" Kerby III -- The challenges of implementing health reform through the tax system / Janet Holtzblatt -- Reforming the tax treatment of health care : right ways and wrong ways / Jason Furman -- Simple humans, complex insurance, subtle subsidies / Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser -- Taxes and health insurance / Peter Orszag.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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