Reinsuring health : why more middle-class people are uninsured and what government can do /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2006]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A health insurance system in crisis?
- PART I: WHY PEOPLE LACK HEALTH INSURANCE: The growing ranks of the insured; who lacks health insurance?
- Why employer-group health insurance is cheaper, and why those who have it are lucky
- How health insurance markets work
- PART II: PUBLIC POLICIES TO MAKE PRIVATE INSURANCE MORE AVAILABLE: Two approaches; high risk pools and assessments to cover high-risk people
- A third approach: the government as reinsurer for small-group and individual markets
- PART III: GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE: The need for a new health insurance structure
- Appendix: Precedents for government assuming responsibility for the worst risks.