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Tax Incidence and Net Benefits in the Market for Employment-Related Health Insurance: Sensitivity of Estimates to the Incidence of Employer Costs

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  • Thomas M. Selden
  • Didem M. Bernard

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The market for employment-related coverage contains public transfers through the tax system and private transfers across workers with predictably different risks. We examine both transfers across a wide range of employee characteristics, including age, race, ethnicity, family size, poverty level, and health risk. To resolve longstanding questions regarding the incidence of employer contributions, we simulate a range of alternative incidence scenarios in which (i) all employees offered coverage in a firm share equally in the employer's costs, (ii) burdens are narrowly targeted according to employee-specific health risks, and (iii) intermediate cases with burdens targeted by job characteristics, age, sex, race, ethnicity, and family size. Our results provide evidence regarding the distribution of tax subsidies and net benefits under a range of scenarios that we believe bound the true incidence of employer premium contributions.

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  • Thomas M. Selden & Didem M. Bernard, 2004. "Tax Incidence and Net Benefits in the Market for Employment-Related Health Insurance: Sensitivity of Estimates to the Incidence of Employer Costs," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 4(2), pages 167-192, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:ijhcfe:v:4:y:2004:i:2:p:167-192
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    1. G. Edward Miller & Thomas M. Selden & Jessica S. Banthin, 2014. "Employer-Sim Microsimulation Model: Model Development and Application to Estimation of Tax Subsidies to Health Insurance," Working Papers 14-46, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    2. Didem Bernard & Thomas Selden & Yuriy Pylypchuk, 2016. "The Distribution of Public Spending for Health Care in the United States on the Eve of Health Reform," NBER Chapters, in: Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs, pages 459-474, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Thomas C. Buchmueller & Alan C. Monheit, 2009. "Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform," NBER Working Papers 14839, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Ponpoje Porapakkarm & Svetlana Pashchenko, 2011. "Front-loaded contracts in health insurance market: How valuable is guaranteed renewability?," 2011 Meeting Papers 1268, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    5. Thomas Selden, 2008. "The effect of tax subsidies on high health care expenditure burdens in the United States," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 8(3), pages 209-223, September.

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