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Health insurance can offer protection against catastrophic medical expenses and improve access to health care. There are, however, imperfections in the insurance market that require intervention such as asymmetry of information between the policy holder and the insurance company, moral hazard that c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
World Bank Publications,
2012.
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Colección: | Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Health insurance can offer protection against catastrophic medical expenses and improve access to health care. There are, however, imperfections in the insurance market that require intervention such as asymmetry of information between the policy holder and the insurance company, moral hazard that can occur on the side of the insured or the provider of health services, risk selection that may lead to cream skim a particular market, and others. To encourage the effective development of Voluntary Private Health Insurance, it will be necessary for policymakers to establish and enforce regulatory. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780821395172 0821395173 9780821389935 0821389939 |