Beveridge model

noun

A health care system in which the government provides care for all its citizens through income tax payments.

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Meanings

nounBeveridge model (plural Beveridge models)

plural Beveridge models

  1. A health care system in which the government provides care for all its citizens through income tax payments.

Origin

Named after William Beveridge, whose 1942 Beveridge Report was influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom.

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