Health Reform Without Side Effects.

Mark V. Pauly offers a detailed look at the individual insurance market in the United States. He explains how it works, suggests approaches to improvement that build on what currently works well, and provides a realistic assessment of how much improvement we can demand and expect. He concludes that,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pauly, Mark V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford : Hoover Institution Press, 2010.
Colección:Hoover inst press Publication.
Temas:
Health care reform > United States.
Health insurance > Self-insurance > United States.
Health insurance > United States.
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
Assurance-maladie > Auto-assurance > États-Unis.
Assurance-maladie > États-Unis.
Health care reform
Health insurance
Health insurance > Self-insurance
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword by John Raisian
  • Acknowledgments
  • Problem definition
  • The lay of the land: How many people have what problems?
  • Can individual insurance help?
  • Coverage for high risks
  • Community rating: the worst possible way to do a good thing
  • Whatâ€?s wrong with individual insurance?
  • What is good about the individual market?
  • How not to critique the individual health insurance market
  • Lowering administrative costs
  • Buying groups and exchanges: How many Chihuahuas equal a Great Dane? Regulation and pricing without exchanges
  • Insurance company economics, sharp practices, premiums, and exclusions
  • Subsidies
  • What to hope for and what to expect
  • Offering the right product
  • The ideal and the feasible: compromises and mixes
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • About the Author
  • About the Hoover Institution Working Group on Health Care Policy
  • Index

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