Beveridge model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Beveridge model Beveridge models

Etymology

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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