Zweifel, Peter - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 3 (2007) 3, pp. 183-273
The objective of this text is to develop the theory of social health insurance (SHI; the expression used especially in the United States is "public health insurance," which will be viewed as one variant of SHI here). While a good deal is known about the demand and supply of private insurance,...