TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fuchs,Victor R.
TI  - National Health Insurance Revisited
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3884
PY  - 1991
Y2  - October 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3884
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3884.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Victor R. Fuchs
796 Cedro Way
Stanford, CA  94305
Tel: 650/326-7639
Fax: 650/328-4163
E-Mail: vfuchs@stanford.edu
AB  - This paper explains why one in seven Americans has no health insurance, and compares the casualty and the social insurance models of health insurance. The paper discusses the relationship among national health insurance (NHI) , the cost of care, and the health of the population, and it considers the prospects for NHI in the United States in the short and the long run. Four explanations for the absence of NHI in the United States distrust of government, heterogeneity of the population, a robust voluntary sector, and lack of noblesse oblige -- are evaluated in the light of recent political, social, and economic trends.
ER  -