Health, autonomic financing and transferences
The present paper has as objective to study the whole relative problem
to the autonomous communities and regional heath care expenditure financing in
Spain. This article has a dual purpose. First, the financing of the current health care
attendance is approached in the Spanish regions passing magazine to its possible variants
and we observe that the balance of our system is clearly inclined towards the
side of the integration in the general pattern of financing («Fiscal Room») with specific
conditions («Mixed System»). Secondly, we examine the new situation in the
mark of health care and its corresponding financing in the new model approved in
2001, in terms of the effects of tax assignment on autonomous communities.
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