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Economic Issues in Reform of Health Care Financing

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  • Henry J. Aaron

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  • Barry P. Bosworth

    (Brookings Institution)

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  • Henry J. Aaron & Barry P. Bosworth, 1994. "Economic Issues in Reform of Health Care Financing," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 25(1994 Micr), pages 249-299.
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    3. Thomas R. Oliver, 1999. "The dilemmas of incrementalism: Logical and political constraints in the design of health insurance reforms," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(4), pages 652-683.
    4. Walter M. Cadette, 1996. "Rethinking Health Care Policy: The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_171, Levy Economics Institute.
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    6. Kanika Kapur & José J. Escarce & M. Susan Marquis & Kosali I. Simon, 2008. "Where Do the Sick Go? Health Insurance and Employment in Small and Large Firms," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 74(3), pages 644-664, January.
    7. Patricia M. Anderson & Bruce D. Meyer, 1998. "Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims, and Denials," NBER Working Papers 6808, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    9. Louise Sheiner, 1999. "Health care costs, wages, and aging," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1999-19, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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    12. Anderson, Patricia M. & Meyer, Bruce D., 2000. "The effects of the unemployment insurance payroll tax on wages, employment, claims and denials," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(1-2), pages 81-106, October.
    13. Anderson, Patricia M. & Meyer, Bruce D., 1997. "The effects of firm specific taxes and government mandates with an application to the U.S. unemployment insurance program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 119-145, August.
    14. Walter M. Cadette, 1999. "Rethinking Health Care Policy: The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies," Macroeconomics 9902011, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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