CHE seminar - How redistributive is the English NHS?

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Abstract:

(with Eric French, Jeremy McCauley and Ben Zaranko)

Public health insurance systems represent huge expenditures for most developed countries. However, despite these massive expenditures, little is known about how redistributive such systems are: who pays into, and who benefits from these systems over their lifetime? Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, matched to 20 years of administrative hospitals and 60 years of tax records, we estimate the distribution of lifetime medical transfers received from the English National Health Service and the lifetime distribution of tax paid for that care. We show these transfers and tax payments across three measures of permanent income: lifetime earnings, local area deprivation and educational attainment. Preliminary results suggest that the NHS is progressive, with the net present value of lifetime tax payments rising across permanent income groups while the net present value of lifetime medical transfers is broadly flat.

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About the speaker

George Stoye

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