The Quest for a Divided Welfare State Sweden in the Era of Privatization /

• Main Author: Lapidus, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Welfare state.; Health economics.; Education-Economic aspects.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Health Economics.; Education Economics.

This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden. The prime example is the rapid rise of private health insurance, which now constitutes a parallel system characterized by state subsidies for some and not for others. This functions as a kind of reverse means-testing, whereby prim...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The divided welfare state
• Chapter 2: To buy ahead
• Chapter 3: Private provision and private funding
• Chapter 4: State as sponsor
• Chapter 5: Half private healthcare
• Chapter 6: Half private elderly care
• Chapter 7: Half private education
• Chapter 8: Relieve or hollow out
• Chapter 9: A farewell to trust and tax willingness
• Chapter 10: A spiral of rising costs
• Chapter 11: A burden for the common
• Chapter 12: Rhetoric and practice
• Chapter 13: The ambivalent actors
• Chapter 14: Right or commodity
• Chapter 15: The twisted debate
• Chapter 16: Future funding of welfare
• Chapter 17: A choice between two models.