Health programs are an extremely im

Health programs are an extremely important part of the transfer system. Although
there is no uniformly agreed upon method of valuing the programs, not valuing them
is certainly incorrect. Prior analysis often avoids the issue of health care by ignoring it.
We attempt to add the effects of health programs to our more comprehensive estimates
of effective marginal tax rates for sample households by assigning them a value roughly
equal to the cost the government bears.