Government As Reinsurer For Very-High-Cost Persons In Nongroup Health Insurance Markets
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 21 (Suppl1) , W380-W382
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.w2.380
Abstract
Fear of adverse selection drives carriers in nongroup insurance markets to compete in their use of selection mechanisms to screen out high-risk applicants. This contributes to economic in...Keywords
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