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Relieve or Hollow Out

In: The Quest for a Divided Welfare State

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  • John Lapidus

    (University of Gothenburg)

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What happens to the universal welfare state when people start to buy private health insurance? The advocates of a divided welfare state argue that insurance relieves the public system, an argument that is widely spread in the media. In contrast, this chapter discusses the variety of factors that make the rapid rise of private health insurance erode the public welfare system. It is actually axiomatic that privatization and semi-privatization threaten the universal welfare system, but the newspeak-ish argument that private solutions relieve the public is made with such fervour that it has convinced parts of the population, especially policyholders who want to legitimize their insurance in a country where it can still be seen as something suspicious and odd.

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  • John Lapidus, 2019. "Relieve or Hollow Out," Springer Books, in: The Quest for a Divided Welfare State, chapter 0, pages 111-124, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-24784-3_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24784-3_8
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