Title:
Using taxes to reform health insurance pitfalls and promises / Henry J. Aaron, Leonard E. Burman, editors.
Main Entry:
Aaron, Henry J.
Burman, Leonard.
Urban Institute.
Brookings Institution.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
Brookings Institution Press,
Publication Date:
c2008.
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C. :
ISBN:
9780815701255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081570125X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Health insurance -- United States.
Taxation -- United States.
Electronic books.
Contents:
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 ; comment by Daniel Halperin ; comment by Anup Malani -- 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 ; case study of a successful HSA by Douglas P. Stives -- Tax subsidies for out-of-pocket health care costs / Jessica Vistnes, William Jack, and Arik Levinson ; comment by Jonathan Gruber -- 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 ; comment by Stan Dorn ; comment by Sherry Glied -- Reforming the tax treatment of health care : right ways and wrong ways / Jason Furman ; comment by Emmett Keeler -- Simple humans, complex insurance, subtle subsidies / Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser ; comment by Edward J. McCaffery -- Taxes and health insurance / Peter Orszag.
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