期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：We present a model of political competition, in a multi-dimensional policy space and
with policy-oriented candidates, to analyze the problem of health care finance. In our
model, health care is either financed publicly (by means of general taxation) or
privately (by means of a copayment). The extent of these two components (as well as
the overall tax schedule) is the outcome of the process of political competition. Our
results highlight, from a political-economy perspective, the key role of technological
change in explaining the widely observed phenomenon, in advanced democracies, of a
rising share of total economic resources spent on health.
关键词：political competition, health care finance, ideological equilibrium,
technology
