Warning: Inadequate Low-Income Subsidy Design Can Cause Problems for Health Care Reform
Warning: Inadequate Low-Income Subsidy Design Can Cause Problems for Health Care Reform
This report examines potential adverse consequences of low-income subsidy systems contained in the leading health care reform approaches including: work disincentives as a result of high marginal taxrates; employer incentives to drop coverage; and loss of coverage due to budgetary control mechanisms.
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