| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 409 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
History of health insurance -- A summary of insurance coverage -- The demand for health insurance -- Adverse selection -- Underwriting and rate making -- Risk adjustment -- Moral hazard and prices -- Moral hazard and utilization management -- Selective contracting and hospitals -- Selective contracting and physicians -- Managed care backlash, provider consolidation, monopsony power, and most favor nation clauses -- Premium sensitivity for health insurance -- Compensating differentials -- Taxes and employer-sponsored health insurance -- Employers and agents -- Health savings accounts and consumer driven health plans -- The small group market -- Regulation in the insurance market -- The individual market -- State high-risk pools -- Medicare -- Retiree coverage -- Medicaid, crowd-out, and long term care insurance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-391) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Health insurance -- United States.
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Insurance, Health -- economics
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National Health Insurance, United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Health.
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Insurance, Health -- economics -- United States.
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Health insurance
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007021732 |
| ISBN |
9781567933000 |
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1567933009 |
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